TY - ABST T1 - “Cabbage Koora: A Prognostic Autobiography” Y1 - 2024 A1 - Sanjana Sekhar KW - Female author KW - South-Indian American author AB -

The story is set in what remains of Los Angeles in 2023, 2047, 2077 and is told from the perspective of a South Asian woman who reflects on the changes that are brought about due to climate change and the way they, over time, are met. Cabbage koora is a dish grandmother and mother made which, in 2047 she cannot make because cabbage requires too much water. In 2077, she is growing cabbages for the first time.

JF - Grist/Imagine 2000 2024 UR - https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine2200-cabbage-koora/ U2 -

Illus. Mikyung Lee

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Camp Zero. A Novel Y1 - 2023 A1 - Michelle Min Sterling KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Complex novel with numerous themes speaking to current issues set in a climate change future. Camp Zero is an experimental community in northern Canada that will teach survival skills.

PB - Atria Books/Simon & Schuster CY - New York SN - 978-1668007563 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Robot Whisperer” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Phoebe Wagner KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change future seen through the memories of a now old woman who had fled to a rural community trying to live sustainably after her hacking exploits that revealed the corruption in her home city were traced to her.

JF - Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales PB - Android Press CY - Eugene, OR SN - 978-1-958121313 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Scent of Green” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Ana Sun ED - Phoebe Wagner KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Malaysian Borneo author AB -

The story is set in a community that was established as an eco-resort but was unable to survive as a business during the collapse of the economy due to climate change. Much later, it is one of a number of settlements that survived and are learning to cooperate to solve their problems. He protagonist is a woman whose job is to move from community to community to try to find those solutions.

JF - Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales PB - Android Press CY - Eugene, OR SN - 978-1-958121313 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Timid Librarian” Y1 - 2023 A1 - [Miriam] [Simos] (b. 1951) ED - Justine Norton-Kertson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in what is clearly a eutopia celebrating an important festival, but the ending is pure fantasy in which as part of the festival individuals change from female to male or male to female.

JF - Bioluminiscent: A Lunarpunk Anthology PB - Android Press CY - Eugene, OR SN - 978-1958121122 U3 -

Starhawk [pseud.]

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

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

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

Illus. Sean Bodley.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Alt-Dream" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Merryana Salem ED - Rafeif Ismail ED - Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Transgender author AB -

The story is set in a future in which population control requires an early death at a time set by the government.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trans. into Italian by Gabrielle Gregori.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Babang Luksa" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Nicasio Andres Reed ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam ED - Gabriela Santiago KW - Filipino author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a drowned Philadelphia told from the point of view of a man who left to work on reclamation/defense project around the country but has returned to see his multi-generational family that lives in an area that didn’t flood but is surrounded by water.

JF - Reckoning 6: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI SN - 978-1-955360-04-3 UR - Babang Luksa – Reckoning U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Brave Dress" Y1 - 2022 A1 - [Miriam] [Simos] (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future United States damaged by climate change. It focuses on a family, a trans couple and their daughter, who are members of the Religious Order of Restorationists, a group devoted to restoring the depleted land, after which they then moved on to another area that needed work.

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 1 U3 -

Starhawk [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Down and Out in Exile Park” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Tade Thompson ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set on Exile Park, an island off the coast of Nigeria created from plastic and other waste that has become a refuge for dissidents and developed a system of governance and way of life that involves everyone and a parliament that operates like a Quaker meeting. They have redefined crime as Acts of Social Crime and the entire society is based around reducing such acts.

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

Illus. Sean Bodley

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Drone Pirates of Silicon Valley” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Meg Elison (b. 1982) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where a drone delivery runs the area like a company town with the workers required to pay rent to live in barracks and buy everything they need from the company store with any, even slight, dissent leading to being fired. The focus, though, is on three teenagers who develop a system for capturing the drones and stealing what they are carrying.

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

Illus. Sean Bodley

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "E.I." Y1 - 2022 A1 - Kola Heyward-Rotimi ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam ED - Gabriela Santiago KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future Earth badly damaged by climate change that is recovering through the intelligent use of technology and a form of online democracy in which the Earth gets the final say. It is told through the story of a project designed to raise a large building from under water to use as a tool to teach about the past interspersed with vignettes showing how the technology is used.

JF - Reckoning 6: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI SN - 978-1-955360-04-3 UR - E.I. – Reckoning U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Epilogue. The Second American Civil War. A Reckoning” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Ilan Stavans KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Reflections on the Civil War of 2023-2027 during which five million Americans died.

JF - What Is American Literature? PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. SN - 9780198816218 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Girls Home" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Mykaela Saunders ED - Rafeif Ismail ED - Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Queer author AB -

A future Aboriginal community chooses, without their knowledge, girls who are drugged to temporarily eliminate their memories to put in the dystopian girl’s home conditions that their forebearers were forced to endure. In the story, the girls find the inner resources to fight back as a community and escape, which appears to be the point.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Home™” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Smuts, Eckard KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The story is set during travel to a trademarked home in space designed to cater to the wealthy. One of the passengers leaving Earth reflects on the conditions there. Earth is effectively controlled by the same corporation that built Home™ and violently suppresses any protests.

JF - The Johannesburg Review of Books VL - 6.2 UR - https://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2022/05/02/new-short-fiction-home-by-eckard-smuts/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “I Give You the Moon” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Justina [Louise Alice] Robson (b. 1968) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a depopulated but high-tech future after a slow apocalypse produced by diseases and climate change. It focuses on a man living on the African coast helping to regulate the machines that are cleaning up the oceans and living in a simple hut on the beach living off the credits he earns and his interactions with his son and others, mostly at a distance through an unexplained wireless system.

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

Illus. Sean Bodley

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - January Fifteenth Y1 - 2022 A1 - Rachel Swirsky (b. 1962) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel explores the impact Universal Basic Income (UBI), January 15 being the day each year that every American receives theirs, illustrating what works well and how the system might go wrong.

PB - Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 978-1-25019-894-5 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The New Migrants/I nouvi migranti” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Navin Weeraratne ED - Tarun K. Saint ED - Bodhisattva Chattopadhayay ED - Francesco Verso KW - Male author KW - Sri Lankan author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nimeybirra” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Laniyuk ED - Mykaela Saunders KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story in the form of notes from various people to others, some deceased, begins in 2086 and continues until 2157, and the returns to April 2021 in a note from the author. The notes follow the gradual taking back of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand by its indigenous peoples with the final entry a statement of the original impetus.

JF - This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction PB - Queensland University Press CY - St. Lucia, Qld, Australia SN - 978-0702265662 U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ReInception Y1 - 2022 A1 - Sarena Straus KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which brains are modified to eliminate unwanted behaviors from the perspective of a woman who is unmodified and joins the resistance movement.

PB - Winding Road Stories CY - New York/Los Angeles SN - 979-8-9866043-3-6 U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walk the Vanished Earth Y1 - 2022 A1 - Erin Swan (b. 1975) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Family history from 1873 to 2073 with stops in 1975 and 2027. In 2027 New Orleans in under water and the future family members live in a city floating above it. In 2073, Earth is only a memory and the remaining family members live on Mars and the young woman must decide whether the family line will continue.

PB - Viking/Penguin Random House CY - [New York] SN - 978-0593299333 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What Is a Penguin?" Y1 - 2022 A1 - S. J. C. Schreiber KW - Female author KW - Icelandic author AB -

The story is set on a cruise ship arriving in Greenland from Denmark, with the family are traveling to recreate the trip the grandfather made where he met his wife. In Denmark, due to the heat, the family lives underground. Overpopulation means a one-child policy. Greenland now has flamingoes, parrots, and fruit trees.

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-19-6 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2022/06/24/whats-a-penguin/ N1 -

 Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2022: Warmer Worlds. Ed. Katrina Archer (Np: Genache Media, 2023), 22-25 with a note on the author on 25.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the End Y1 - 2021 A1 - Scher, Joshua A. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist dystopia. A film was made by Shout!™ Factory and is available on DVD.

PB - Aethon Books CY - Np SN - 978-1949890-79-2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the End Y1 - 2021 A1 - Joshua V. Scher KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist dystopia. A film was made by Shout!™ Factory and is available on DVD.

PB - Aetheon Books CY - Np SN - 978-1949890-79-2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Apology" Y1 - 2021 A1 - M. Shaw KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a near future capitalist dystopia.

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 28 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Arrival of the New World” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Premee Mohamed ED - Tarun K. Saint KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story takes place in Guyana where a Canadian journalist of Guyanese ancestry is investigating the disappearance of a group of eco-tourists by replicating their trip with photographers and guides. Much commentary on the contemporary world, which is controlled by about seven corporations and everyone and everything is heavily surveilled, including every path that they will follow.

JF - The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2. With a Graphic Preface and Afterword by Manjula Padmanabhan PB - Hachette India CY - Gurugram, India SN - 978-93-91028-62-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Biryani Bagh” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Sami Ahmad Khan ED - Tarun K. Saint KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

The story moves through different points in time, past present, and future, exploring ethnic/gender/racial relations in India from different points of view.

JF - The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2. With a Graphic Preface and Afterword by Manjula Padmanabhan PB - Hachette India CY - Gurugram, India SN - 978-93-91028-62-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blood Oil" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Rebecca “Reb” Joy Spring KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The brief story told from the point of view of a teenage girl is about an oil pipeline leaking into a creek and how environmental action can improve lives.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Crossing" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Kalsang Yangzom ED - Tarun K. Saint KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Refugee dystopia in which Tibetans try to avoid being inoculated with a drug that will eliminate the beliefs.

JF - The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2. With a Graphic Preface and Afterword by Manjula Padmanabhan PB - Hachette India CY - Gurugram, India SN - 978-93-91028-62-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deep Shade Y1 - 2021 A1 - [Geoffrey S.] [Bok] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In near future Florida, the eco-system has collapsed, and the protagonist is fighting a Genetically Modified fiberweed that is taking over.

PB - Montage Press CY - San Fransisco, CA SN - 978-1-940233-92-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The End of Men Y1 - 2021 A1 - Christina [Rose] Sweeney-Baird (b. 1993) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

A pandemic novel set in the near future, with part located in the Independent Republic of Scotland, about the impact of a disease that, while carried by both men and women, only kills men, except for the few who are immune. The novel, which is told in multiple voices, depicts the trauma, the desperate search for a vaccine, and the growth of a successful world run by women. The focus is on the West, but one thread concerns China, which breaks apart immediately followed by a civil war that is resolved by the end of the novel. Other parts of the world are briefly mentioned, with all contact lost with much of the Middle East.

PB - Penguin Random House/G. P. Putnam’s Sons CY - New York SN - 978-0-593-32813-2 978-0-00-840792-6 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Flock for the Sandhill Crane” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Roman Sanchez ED - Alex Hernandez ED - Matthew David Goodwin ED - Sarah Rafael García KW - Latinx author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is divided between San Antonio in 1931 and in 2231. The former reflects the extreme poverty of a Mexican American family. In the latter, the world has experienced a nuclear war and, under the United Nations, has established a world-wide cooperative economy. But a space program has been developed through cooperation between remaining tech companies and the UN to exploit the resources of space that is actually used to wealthy whites to the Moon and then further. Elements of Magical Realism.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future Library Y1 - 2021 A1 - Peng Shepherd KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Magic realist story based on an actual project of that name created in 2114 in Norway by the Scottish artist Katie Paterson (b. 1981) in which one hundred authors write stories that will be printed in 100 years on paper that is made from a tree planted in 2114; see https://www.futurelibrary.no/ In the story, as the last trees in the world disappear due to continued logging, fire, storms, and pollution, the government of Norway destroys the last of the forest.

PB - Tor.com CY - New York SN - 978-0-358-69012-2 UR - https://www.tor.com/2021/08/18/the-future-library-peng-shepherd/ N1 -

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy™ 2022. Ed Rebecca Roanhorse. Series ed. John Joseph Adams (New York/Boston, MA: Mariner Books/HarperCollins, 2022), 299-326.

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

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

JF - Philosophy Through Science Fiction Stories: Exploring the Boundaries of the Possible PB - Bloomsbury Academic CY - London/New York SN - 978-1-350-08121-5 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kanosha" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Cathy Smith KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - First Nations author AB -

The story is set in a climate change dystopia in which the air is so bad that those who can afford to people live inside domes that are failing and the technology to repair them has been lost. Kanosha means lodge in Kenienkaha (Mohawk). 

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2021/02/26/kanohsa/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Laartammer” Y1 - 2021 A1 - J[ulia] S[muts] Louw ED - Rachel Zadok (b. 1972) ED - Karina Magdalena Szczurek ED - Jason Myki Snyman KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

As a result of the devastating drought produced by climate change, South Africa has introduced water rationing and a one-child policy. The story is told from the viewpoint of a Laatlammer, or late lamb a child born long after its siblings, whose existence has to be hidden.

JF - Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa PB - Short Story Day Africa CY - Np SN - 978-1-946395-57-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Let It Die" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Arwen Spicer (b. 1975) ED - Susan DeFreitas KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future that severely restricts the use of technology, allowing its use solely to repair visiting spaceships and allows people in their community to die rather than using technology to create treatments for them.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Looney ka Tabadia (with apologies to Sa’adat Hassan Manto.” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Bina Shah (b. 1972) ED - Tarun K. Saint KW - Female author KW - Pakistani author KW - US author AB -

While the story focuses on an exchange of prisoners at the border between India and Pakistan, it takes place some years after a peace treaty has brought peace and prosperity to the two countries. The Kashmir problem has been solved by turning into a privately owned theme park overseen jointly by both countries in which all Kashmiris are stockholders.

JF - The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2. With a Graphic Preface and Afterword by Manjula Padmanabhan PB - Hachette India CY - Gurugram, India SN - 978-93-91028-62-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Ministry of Relevance” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Arjun Raj Gaind ED - Tarun K. Saint KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

In an overpopulated future Mumbai, “our glorious leader” has established The Ministry of Relevance” to determine which individuals are fit to life in the city and who should be expelled. The criteria are “racial antecedence, consumption habits, moral turpitude, celebrity quotient, social influence, and ideological fidelity” (70). In a city where books are no longer read, an author is required to prove his relevance and is interrogated by a series of AIs. I

JF - The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2. With a Graphic Preface and Afterword by Manjula Padmanabhan PB - Hachette India CY - Gurugram, India SN - 978-93-91028-62-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Price of Attention” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) ED - Gideon Lichfield KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

After two major pandemics, a country has transformed itself using sophisticated algorithms, opening up green spaces in cities, defunding police and funding support systems, and other “radical liberal” policies. The story takes place as a referendum is about to be held to choose between continued decision-making by algorithm using a very complicated system of voting designed to avoid fraud and decision-making by citizen panels.

JF - Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-262-54240-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Static" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Alithnayn Abdulkareem ED - Rachel Zadok (b. 1972) ED - Karina Magdalena Szczurek ED - Jason Myki Snyman KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is set in a future where Earth has been devastated by climate change and the rich are leaving for space and is told from the perspective of an African woman who has been selected to immigrate to improve the diversity of the inhabitants. Her lover chooses to stay on Earth. It was the second runner up in the 2019/2020 Short Story Day Africa Prize.

JF - The Johannesburg Review of Books VL - 5.3 SN - 9781946395573 UR - [The JRB Daily] [Exclusive] Read ‘Static’ by Alithnayn Abdulkareem, 2nd Runner-up in the 2019/20 Short Story Day Africa Prize – The Johannesburg Review of Books N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Termination Shock. A Novel Y1 - 2021 A1 - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel, primarily a thriller, is set in a fairly near future world undergoing the effects of climate change.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York SN - 978-0063028050 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Terms of Service: Subject to Change Without Notice Y1 - 2021 A1 - Craig W. Stanfill KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia in which algorithms of a single dominant company control the minutia of the daily lives of the vast majority of people with certain behaviors rewarded and others punished. The protagonist is an employee of the company who works with the AIs to constantly adjust the algorithms. First volume of a projected trilogy followed by  The Prophecy of the Heron: An AI Dystopian Novel. Np: Bad Rooster Press, 2022. Updated 2023, with a note “About the AI Dystopia” ([iii-iv]) that explains pronouns and gender, a warning about violence, language, and sex, and refers the reader to https://www.craigwstanfill.com/about-the-ai-dystopia for a world guide and glossary. 394 pp. This volume concerns the protagonist from the first volume who has been exiled to the slums.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trashlands Y1 - 2021 A1 - Alison Stine (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future where discarded plastic is extremely valuable and has replaced money as the primary currency. It is set in what is now called Scrappalachia in Trashlands, a fenced compound anchored by a strip club but mostly an old dump, which is safer than the world outside. Told from the perspectives of different people living there.

PB - Mira/Harlequin Books CY - Toronto, ON, Canada SN - 978-0-7783-1127-0 U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Where Giants Will Stand” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Spencer R. Scott KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in California in a far future in a community devoted to restoring the environment, and the redwoods in particular, and the rituals they use to pass their devotion on to the next generation.

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

Rpt. Solarpunk Magazine, no. 2 (March/April 2022): 67-71

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Busted Synapses Y1 - 2020 A1 - Erica L. Satifka KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia. Set in the same future is her “Act of Providence.” In her How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Disasters (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2021), 219-235, with a note on the story on 328.

PB - Broken Eye Books CY - Np SN - 978-1940372587 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chronicle from the Land of Happiest People on Earth. A Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - Wole [Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde] Soyinka (b. 1934) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author KW - US author AB -

The novel depicts a future African country, similar to Nigeria, that is corrupted by greed and the desire for power. Part mystery novel. Much humor.

PB - Bookcraft CY - Ibadan, Nigeria SN - 9789785795714 978-0593320167 N1 -

U.S. ed. as Chronicle from the Land of Happiest People on Earth. New York: Pantheon Books, 2021. 444 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Chrysalis” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Laura Scotland KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in a future Scotland in a world with recurring pandemics where babies are supposed to be kept in the “ideal” conditions of a Chrysalis that ensures it is safe from pathogens. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 18 N1 -

Rpt. in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 35 (Summer 2023): 83-88.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Cracked Teapot” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Sherry Shahan (b. 1949) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where, due to climate change, most people live underground. The protagonist is a young woman desperate to get out and find like-minded people. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 19 U2 -

Illus. Stephen Daly

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Depth of Simulation” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Gavin Inglis ED - Larissa Pschetz ED - Jane McKie ED - Elise Cachat KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

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

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

Illus. Pilar Garcia de Leaniz 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Docile [The dust jacket has the subtitle There Is No Consent Under Capitalism] Y1 - 2020 A1 - K. M. Szpara KW - Queer author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

In the future the debts of the parents must be paid by the children, and this is done by selling oneself as a Docile through the Office of Debt Resolution. Normally the period as a Docile is undertaken using the drug Dociline. The novel centers on one man who refuses to take Dociline whose contract is bought by a man from the family who created the drug and the program.

PB - Tor.com/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 9781250216151 U1 -

The dust jacket has the subtitle There Is No Consent Under Capitalism

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

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

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

Illus. Matt Bechtel

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Fourth and Most Important” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in an authoritarian dystopia that serves the interests of the ultra-rich.

JF - Us in Flux PB - Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University CY - Tempe, AZ SN - 978-1-955360-05-0 UR - https://csi.asu.edu/projects/usinflux/fourth-and-most-important-by-nisi-shawl/ N1 -

Rpt. in Dreams for a Better Worlds: Book Two in the Dreams Anthology Series. Ed. Ellen Meeropol. Assistant eds. Carina Bissett and Celia Jeffries. Series Ed. Julie C. Day ([Lake Orion, MI: Reckoning Press]/Essential Dreams Press, 2022), 159-165.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ghoul" Y1 - 2020 A1 - George Saunders (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An odd story taking place in the Hell section of an underground amusement park that the employees never leave. Even the slightest criticism or dissent must be reported and death.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 96.35 SN - 9780525509592 UR - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/09/ghoul N1 -

Rpt. in his Liberation Day: Stories (New York: Random House, 2022), 139-170

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glimpses of Utopia: Real Ideas for a Fairer World Y1 - 2020 A1 - Jess Scully KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

In one sense this is a straightforward political book, but the author presents her arguments by discussing all the things she thinks need to be done to bring about a good society. A Universal Basic Income and cooperatives are fundamental but in sixty mostly short chapters, she covers a lot of ground.

PB - Pentera Press CY - Seaforth, NSW, Australia SN - 978192570089 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Green-Up on Aisle 13” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Dorie Sarina KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in an extremely polluted future in which breathing masks are necessary anywhere outside. 

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-10-3 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/08/14/green-up-on-aisle-13/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 19-27, with a note on the author on 27-28. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Halps' Promise" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in an intentional community that has replaced the town of Banff, Alberta sixteen years after the Climate Collapse. The community is struggling to survive, trying to get failing technology to work or by repurposing it. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last Good Time to Be Alive” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Waverly SM KW - English author AB -

The story takes place in a future London facing constant flooding. 

JF - Reckoning 4: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 4 SN - 978-09989252-6-4 UR - https://reckoning.press/the-last-good-time-to-be-alive/ N1 -

Also published online at https://reckoning.press/the-last-good-time-to-be-alive/ (February 5, 2020). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last of the Goggled Barskys” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Joey Siara ED - Brigid Schulte KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in an apparently eutopian future with no wars or poverty in which everyone wears Goggles that curate their lives, giving three rated choices for every action. In the story, a couple is apparently successfully raising their children with the Goggles, but then decide to introduce uncertainty. 

JF - Slate UR - Read a new short story about trying to short-circuit kids’ dependence on tech. (slate.com) U2 -

Illus. Natalie Matthews-Ramo

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love Letter" Y1 - 2020 A1 - George Saunders (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A letter from a grandfather to his grandson in the near future when a corrupt authoritarian government under the leadership of one man (clearly Donald Trump) who won the presidency three times and then by his son has taken over the U.S. The grandfather reflects on what has grandson should do when a friend has been disappeared.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 96.7 SN - 9780525509592 UR - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/06/love-letter-george-saunders N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in his Liberation Day: Stories (New York: Random House, 2022), 95-104.

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

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

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

Illus. Matt Bechtel

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Revolution Will Be Pirated” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Bobuq Sayed ED - Leah Jing McIntosh ED - Cher Tan ED - Adalya Nash Hussein ED - Hassan Abul KW - Australian author KW - Non-binary author AB -

The story is set in a future Australia under a racist, anti-immigrant/refugee Prime Minister. 

JF - Collisions: Fictions of the Future. A Liminal Anthology PB - Allen & Unwin CY - Neutral Bay, NSW, Australia SN - 9780648795186 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Road Out of Winter Y1 - 2020 A1 - Alison Stine (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in Appalachia in a future where civilization has gradually collapsed as cold reduces the growing season, communities cannot afford to heat public buildings, so close all schools, pipes have frozen so that there is no water in buildings, and so forth. The protagonist is a woman who knows how to makes things grow, packs up her seeds and grow lights, and leaves, towing her tiny house. On the way, slowly, she attracts a community of misfits, and they run into more and more violent cults. The novel won the 2020 Philip K. Dick Award. 

PB - Harlequin Books/Mira CY - Toronto, ON, Canada SN - 978-0-7783-0992-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sanctuary Y1 - 2020 A1 - Paola Mendoza (b. 1981) A1 - Abby Sher KW - Columbian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel, a young adult dystopia, is set the United States in 2032 with President Trump in his third term and everyone required to wear an implanted chip that records everything about them and allows non-citizens to be identified. The protagonist is a young, undocumented woman whose father has been deported and whose mother’s fake chip fails. The family then struggles to reach California, which has seceded from the United States and provides sanctuary. 

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York SN - 9781984815712 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Stories and Second Chances” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tamoha Sengupta KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

The story is set in Kolkata, India in the future when it is under water. 

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-10-3 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/09/11/stories-and-second-chances/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 111-16, with a note on the author on 116. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Suicide of Our Troubles” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future in which aspects of the natural world are enabled by AI and use their ability to communicate to hire a lawyer to develop a strategy to eliminate pollution. For a response, see Anna V. Smith, “When Nature Speaks for Itself.” Slate Future Tense (November 28, 2020). https://slate.com/technology/2020/11/suicide-of-our-troubles-environmental-personhood.html, in which the author discusses attempts to grant legal personhood to the natural world.

JF - Slate Future Tense SN - https://slate.com/technology/2020/11/karl-schroeder-suicide-of-our-troubles.html UR - https://slate.com/technology/2020/11/karl-schroeder-suicide-of-our-troubles.html N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2021), 401-418, with a note on the author on 401.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Supply and Demand" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Anjali Sachdeva KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in a future where the privileged cites are all female with children produced from two eggs. Other women live in camps outside the cities and service men. All their daughters visit the cities and some stay.

JF - McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern VL - 59 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Terranora” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Mykaela Saunders KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

An Aboriginal group in a future impacted by climate change rescues prisoners and brings them to an area resettled by the original inhabitants. The story concerns one of the ex-prisoners who doesn’t seem to fit in. The ending suggests that other stories centering on the characters might be forthcoming.

JF - Collisions: Fictions of the Future PB - Pamtera Press CY - Seaforth, NSW, Australia SN - 9780648795186 978-0702265662 N1 -

Rpt. in This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction. Ed. Mykaela Saunders (St. Lucia, Qld, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2022), 247-266, with a note on the author at 248.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Three Days to EOC. A Novella Y1 - 2020 A1 - Abhimanyu Sukhdial KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia. EOC refers to the end of civilization.

PB - Children’s Art Foundation-Stone Soup CY - Santa Cruz, CA SN - 9780894091001 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "White Flu" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Omar Sakr ED - Michael Mohammed Ahmad KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The story takes place in a future Australia in which a deadly pandemic only white people. The protagonist is a queer Arab Australian who mostly concerned with the conflicts within his extended family, most of whom shun him.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The 8th Emotion Y1 - 2019 A1 - Joshua Spiller KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins in a flawed eutopia organized into tribes that come into conflict, but a new emotion is discovered that has the potential to heal the divisions and bring about an even better society that it was before the conflicts emerged. 

PB - Splendour Publishing CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anyone. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Charles Soule (b. 1974) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A science fiction novel exploring what happens when a scientist creates a way for to transfer their consciousness into another body, which creates a dystopia. At the very end when the scientist changes the algorithm so that such transfers happen randomly at any time, with a few sentences suggesting a better result. 

PB - Harper Perennial CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Aqueduct" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Webb, Steve ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Male author JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Ark of the Turtle’s Back” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jay E. Simpson ED - Joshua Whitehead KW - Canadian author KW - First Nations author KW - Indigiqueer author AB -

The story is set in a climate change future where countries are essentially enslaving indigenous peoples to use as labor terraforming and developing the moon and Mars. 

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), 61-76.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bangkok Wakes to Rain Y1 - 2019 A1 - Pitchaya Sudbanthad KW - Male author KW - Thai author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in different time periods including a future in which Bangkok is under water.

PB - Riverhead Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Before Dominica” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future Sydney, Australia that has been devastated by climate change and the collapse of the Australia economy. The entire city had been sold to the Dominica company, and the story is told by a woman who had been climbing the corporate ladder and now cleans the buildings at night.

JF - Kaleidotrope SN - 978-1-912950676 UR - https://kaleidotrope.net/archives/winter-2020/autumn-2019/before-dominica-by-cat-sparks/ N1 -

Rpt. in her Dark Harvest ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 101-123, with a brief author’s note on 123.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bittersweet Building” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rachel Armstrong ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story describes an experiment in “living architecture” in which the responds to and changes the people living in it. 

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cat" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Deepak Unnikrishnan ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - Abu Dhabi author KW - Male author AB -

The story takes place in a city in one of the Gulf states that was almost wiped out when a plane full of bombs crashed and the bombs detonated. As a child, the protagonist was severely injured, and the focus is on years later, after multiple surgeries, when all nations have closed their borders that closed off further treatment, and everyone is struggling to survive and get some pleasure out of life.

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A City of Digital Engagement” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ryan Burns ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia created by turning a city over to Instagram. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A City of the People, For the People, By the People” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ayona Datta ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

In the story, an Indian city noted for its corruption is taken over by Whatsapp and “is owned and managed by a commercial company for private property” (1336 [341]). All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Civic Method" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Matthew Claudel ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After an unexplained collapse, many cities are run on the model of the book publisher Elsevier, which is in competition with cities run by Springer, Taylor and Francis, and the rapidly growing Routledge. Each city completely controls every aspect of its citizens lives. The only threat on the horizon is in the Midwest of the United States where Open Access is growing. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Col and the Blackouts” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jessica Foley A1 - Rob Kitchin ED - Mark Graham ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

In the story, a city council is taken over by Mobile Network Operator, based on Vodaphone, and a section is cut off from any access to the internet. That section develops its own culture and language. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Mearspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Counting the Days” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kathy Schilbach ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - French author AB -

A dystopia in which at age seventy-five no further medical care is given. you then have ninety days to live. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Cryps, Chains and Cranks” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Matthew Zook ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Deep Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rivers Solomon (b. 1989) A1 - Daveed Diggs (b. 1982) A1 - William Hutson A1 - Jonathan Snipes KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The short novel describes the underwater eutopian society that develop when pregnant women were thrown or jumped overboard from slave ships in the middle passage. An “Afterword” by Diggs, Hutson, and Snipes (157-63) explains the evolution of the work from its origins in the techno-electro duo Drexciya and their collaborators, followed by the song “The Deep” by the band clipping. (Diggs, Hutson, and Snipes), and then the written work.

PB - Saga Press CY - New York U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dumb House" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Andrea Hairston (b. 1952) ED - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a heavily surveilled future largely under corporate control. 

JF - New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Colour PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “EasyCity” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Manuel B. Aalbers ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Belgian author KW - Male author AB -

The EasyJet version of a city as seen by a couple wanting to rent an inexpensive EasyFlat in EasyCity, a new suburb being built near the airport that EasyJet has renamed to suggest it is closer to a major city than it actually is and going through all the add-on extras. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. The EasyJet version of a city as seen by a couple wanting to rent an inexpensive EasyFlat in EasyCity, a new suburb being built near the airport that EasyJet has renamed to suggest it is closer to a major city than it actually is and going through all the add-on extras. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Elliott Spencer” Y1 - 2019 A1 - George Saunders (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In the story an old man has had his memory “scraped” and reprogrammed, and he and others are used as political protesters.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 95.23 SN - 9780525509592 UR - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/19/elliott-spencer-fiction-george-saunders N1 -

Rpt. in his Liberation Day: Stories (New York: Random House, 2022), 197-233.

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Illus. Oliver Chanarin

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fall or, Dodge in Hell. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A massive novel in which a wealthy man’s brain scanned after his death and comes to exist in Bitworld, which is far from utopian. A good part of the novel is about a quest taking place in Bitworld. A second theme has most the U.S. Middle West under the control of a cult, which is made possible by Facebook, which provides different “information” to different areas and people. Some of the characters originated in his Reamde. New York: William Morrow, 2011.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

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

Grindr City starts as an app for gay and bi men to chat and meet, and it evolves into an all-consuming way of life, which then evolves into an actual city. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Growing the New City: London 2039” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Robin Robinson (b. 1944) ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

London in 2039 is becoming a sustainable city after years of demonstrations by the youth of the city. 

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - DLC 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “He Are the People” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Elif Shafak (b. 1971) KW - Female author KW - Turkish author KW - UK author AB -

The story is set in an Istanbul by climate change with most birds, insects, and plants dead. The wealthiest of all countries had formed an alliance and were planning to escape to another planet. Authoritarian dystopia in Turkey. Parliament dissolved itself giving all power to the President, who has renamed himself “WeAreThePeople” with the people now known as “ThePresident”. Voting based on education (the more educated get fewer votes), and age, with the elderly getting more votes and ethnic and sexual minorities getting the fewest votes. Refugees get no votes.

JF - McSweeney’s 58. 2040 A.D. PB - McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern CY - San Francisco, CA VL - 58 U2 -

Illus. Wesley Allsbrook

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In Arms" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jo Lindsay Walton (b. 1982) ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A complex future tale with what appears to be two separate story lines (one indicated by black dots in the left margin) plus some explanation of the how the current situation evolved (indicated by red dots in the left margin). Reference to the Palace of Westminster/Wetminster in England’s green and pleasant seas suggests a climate change dystopia, but there are also suggestions of having achieved sustainability, and at for a time. 

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - King Harvest (Will Surely Come)” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A dystopia in which the U.S. Heartland has walled itself off from the rest of the country and expelled all those who don’t fit, such as everyone who is not white. Religious fundamentalism has evolved into a politico-religious system with a hereditary monarch who must be ritually killed at regular intervals. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lay Low" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Maria Smith ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future where the .1% control the world and people exist of allowances allocated for specific things such as water and transport. 

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - DLC 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Let’s Make this City and Urban Project Everybody Wants” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Shannon Mattern ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Baltimore is taken over by the seed accelerator Y Combinator. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light at the Bottom of the World Y1 - 2019 A1 - London Shah KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

First volume in a young adult duology to be followed by the Journey the Heart of the Abyss (2021). The protagonist is a young Muslim London girl, but a London that in 2099 is part of a completely submerged world. The novel focus on the girl’s search for her father, who has been arrested on false charges by the corrupt, authoritarian government. She hopes to gain his release by winning the London Marathon, which is a race of submersibles. 

PB - Disney Book Group/Hyperion CY - New York SN - 9781368036887 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Manna from Heaven” Y1 - 2019 A1 - ECO [pseud.] ED - David F. Shultz KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the usual men with power, corporate, political and religious, worried about a growing independence in the people, take over an invention that provides food from clouds with disastrous results.

JF - Nourishment: A One-Shot Anthology of Science Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Np U3 -

ECO [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Materiality" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story of told from the point-of-view of young boy living in southern California in a future that is dealing with the effects of climate change. A class project at the end of middle school is to act as a model classroom in a model Twenty-first Century Town, including wearing the clothes of the time.

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 978-1-958121313 N1 -

Rpt. in Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales. Ed. Phoebe Warner (Eugene, OR: Android Press, 2023), 186-201. 978-

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Monetizing Movement” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Harrison Smith ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is in the form of a sales pitch from a company, based on Groundtruth, selling constantly updated location data by accessing phones. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Most Magical Place” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Anthony Vanky ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on planned cities run by AIs programmed by companies like Disney. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mother Ocean" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) ED - Ann VanderMeer (b. 1957) AB -

The background of the story is a dystopia showing the effects of climate-change on South Asia, but most of the story takes places in the Indian Ocean, which also shows the effects of climate-change, and is about the interactions between one young woman and a blue whale. 

JF - Ocean Stories. Current Futures: A Sci-Fic Ocean Anthology SN - 978-1-949103-22-2 UR - https://go.xprize.org/oceanstories/mother-ocean/ N1 -

Rpt., without the illustration, in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 5. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020), 367-79. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Narrative of Nausirwan Shavaksha Sheikh Chilli” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Keki N. Daruwalla (b. 1937) ED - Tarun K. Saint KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on Indian politics and corruption that begins with the disappearance of all but one Parsi, who then decides to join the exodus to the moon to escape his gambling debts and India’s pollution. 

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Old Drift. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Namwali Serpell (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - US author KW - Zambian author AB -

Much of the novel traces the lives of three African families (black, brown, and white) over four generations from the colonial era into the future, with the fourth generation living in a totalitarian dystopia. 

PB - Hogarth CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Oli Away" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Edward Davey ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story describes a trip around the world made sustainable that describes all the advances made in protecting the environment. 

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Other Side" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Payal Dhar ED - Tarun K. Saint KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Refugee dystopia told from the point of view of escaping refugees. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “[Pink Heart Shape]” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lesley [Naa Norle] Lokko A1 - Maria Smith ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Ghanaian author KW - Scottish author KW - South African author KW - US author AB -

The story begins and ends with a young woman living in poverty in Ghana, dependent of remittances from her sister in London. In between is a discussion African migration, the causes of the woman’s poverty, and the importance of such remittances. 

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Placation" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sophie Mackintosh (b. 1988) ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

In the story, the Earth requires that it be placated annually with the body part of a human and focuses on a girl who cannot decide what part of her body to sacrifice. Compare to 1948 Jackson, “The Lottery.” 

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Playmentalities” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Alberto Vanolo ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Maureen Shannon KW - Italian author KW - Male author AB -

The first part is fiction about a boy in a city that uses “civic games” through Playstation to teach good citizenship and uses the scores attained throughout life to award or punish its citizens. The second part is an essay on the current status of such programs.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Potholes and Pumpkin Spice” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kalpana Shankar A1 - Glenn Kaufmann ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire describing a city run by Starbucks. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. Female co-author. Shankar is a Professor of Information and Communication Studies at University College, Dublin. Kaufmann is a freelance writer from the United States to Dublin, Ireland in 2011 and now has dual citizenship.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Premium Places" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Dietmar Offenhuber ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is in the form of an academic article on a city designed and run by Pornhub. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “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 - "Reunion" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) ED - Tarun K. Saint KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in a future India that has been battered by climate change creating storms strong enough to destroy cities. The protagonist is an Indian woman scientist who had developed the basis for settlements that integrated advanced technology with the natural world and made it possible for people to thrive in the new conditions. 

JF - The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction PB - Hachette India CY - Gurugram, India SN - 9789388322058 978-1-5344-4959-6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 422-62, with an editor’s note on 422. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “(R)evolution” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sam Agro ED - David F. Shultz KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future where all a cities rubbish, toxic chemicals, and so forth have been dumped outside it where the poor live, and those living in the area begin to become mutants. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Robots of Eden” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Anil [Ravindran] Menon (b. 1964) ED - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Much of the story seems to be about the relationships within and Indian family. Then, it is gradually revealed that some of the people have been “enhanced” through an implant that counters negative emotions. From the viewpoint of the protagonist, the results are entirely positive, but what happens within the story suggests the opposite. 

JF - New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Colour PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. SN - 978-1781085783 978-1-5344-4959-6 978-1328613103 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 193-211, with an editor’s note on 193; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. Ed. Diana Gabaldon (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), 306-22, with a note on the author together with the author’s note on the story on 399. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Safe and Secure Living in Camden” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Alan Wiig ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is designed as a report of a couple searching for a safe place to live, work, and raise their family. They settle on Camden, New Jersey, a formerly notoriously dangerous city that has partnered with corporations, such as Shotspotter, to install comprehensive surveillance. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. The author teaches urban planning and community development at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, who has also published a critique of the actual program in “Secure the City, Revitalize the Zone: Smart Urbanization in Camden, New Jersey.” Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 36.3 (2018): 403-23.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Save the ShireTM” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jennifer Gabrys ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A technological libertarian eutopia for the extremely wealthy made possible for the wholesale harvesting of information on individuals used to undermine democracy, based on Palintir. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Seedless Y1 - 2019 A1 - D. A. Xiaolin Spires KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story extrapolates the popularity of seedless fruit to a world where nothing is reproduced naturally. 

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-08-0 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2019/06/14/seedless/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 112-19. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Seeking Follows” Y1 - 2019 A1 - James Ash ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

In the story, Twitter has taken over London after the collapse of democracy in 2038 and “follows” have become the main medium of exchange with those with the most follows selling their ability to gain attention to advertisers. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. The author is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Semantic City” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Andrew Iliadis ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where Philadelphia has contract with Apple for its citizens, including teenagers, to have a Siri implant that provides them with a constant flow of information, including ads. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Should You Add a Microchip to Your Brain?” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Susan Schneider KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The Op-Ed considers the ethical ramifications in a future where AI has advanced so much and eliminated so many jobs that people are adding microchips to their brain to avoid unemployment. 

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/opinion/future-artificial-intelligence-transhumanism.html U2 -

Illus. John Karborn

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

The story takes place in Sydney, Australia, which, due to climate change and environmental degradation had lost its tax base and agreed to cooperate with Sidewalk Labs, owned by Google, to create an experimental surveilled city that would focus on reducing the cities carbon footprint. This requires that every action by every resident be tracked an evaluated positively or negatively. Those who fall below the threshold determined by the city can be expelled, losing not merely the right to live in the city but their property in the city. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. The Australian female author is a digital strategy consultant, producer, and researcher.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "St. JuJu" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rivers Solomon (b. 1989) KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Transgender author AB -

Set in a far-distant future, the story explicitly rejects the idea of a perfect society and explores different notions of what makes a life good.

JF - The Verge Better Worlds UR - A trash garden is paradise and prison in Rivers Solomon’s story “St. Juju” - The Verge U2 -

Illus. Allen Laseter

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stealing Worlds Y1 - 2019 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins in a surveillance dystopia in which a woman finds that it is extremely hard to hide. She then discovers people creating cyber worlds and taking on new identities in these worlds and forming communities, something that otherwise no longer exists. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Streamers" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cian O’Callaghan ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a city that has replaced almost all work with temporary jobs offered through streaming, modeled on Spotify. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Strive City of Tomorrow” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Katharine S. Willis ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A description of Strive City, which is based on combining Ebenezer Howard’s A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898) and Strava Metro, a company that monetizes data sets present as a sales pitch for the city. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Subprime Language and the Crash” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Pip Thornton ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

In search of larger and larger profits, Google’s complete control of the internet led to it buy up much of the world’s real estate, and to monetizing words. This led to the Global Linguistic Crash of 2041 and the loss of all information that had been stored on the internet, paper records having been outlawed.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Summanus” Y1 - 2019 A1 - A. E. Bower ED - David F. Shultz KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Swipe Right to Welcome Left to Reject” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Linnet Taylor ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Dutch author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A description of a city that had been welcoming to immigrants and refugees but failing to integrate them partners with Welcome Tinder to pair citizens and immigrants. The relationship apparently begins successfully and then is followed for five years and it spreads across the country at the same time that more and more problems emerge. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - NP SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Thirteen Year Long Song” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sheree Renée Thomas (b. 1972) ED - Jason Sizemore ED - Lesley Conner KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Too Much Fulfilment” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lizzie Richardson ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Food delivery has entirely taken over the food industry and effectively controls what people get to eat, based on a company like Deilveroo. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - NP SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Ungovernable Cities” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire describing a number of fantastic or just very odd cities. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s La città invisibili/Invisible Cities 1972/1974).

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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

The story is set in a future that is completely connected and surveilled by a company like Cambridge Analytica told from the point-of-view of a teenager who doesn’t fit the parameters. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ursa Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tina Shaw (b. 1961) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

A young adult dystopia set in a future city divided between the powerful and wealthy Travesters and the poor and enslaved Cerels who are prohibited to have children. 

PB - Walker Books Australia CY - Newtown, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Welcome to Jobstown” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sophia Maalsen A1 - Kurt Ivensen ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Written as a Time Magazine report from 2029 on the development of Jobstown, a “smart city,” by Apple, with everything provided by Apple and accessed through Apple products, and every action is recorded and stored. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Work, Love, and Learning in Utopia: Equality Reimagined Y1 - 2019 A1 - Martin Schoenhals KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction utopia. The author concludes by saying that “This book has described my own visions for a better world” (265), and that is what he does throughout the book, mostly in fairly general terms, but in some chapters with some specificity. Stresses pleasure, community, the elimination of hierarchy, including an equality that eliminates “otherness,” particularly regarding gender roles but extending to most areas of difference. The chapter on Work in Utopia (107-51) lays out the author’s “overall plan for the economy in Utopia,” which includes, among other things, a guarantee of basic needs for all people. The chapter entitled “The Intrinsic Pleasures and Purposes of Learning” (191-230) sees a deinstitutionalized lifelong learning as central to the good life. Some discussion of governance. Elimination of nation-states. The author is a cultural anthropologist who currently teaches is a member of the First Year Seminar Core Faculty at Appalachian State University.

PB - Routledge CY - Abingdon, Eng./New York SN - 9781138549494 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - You Are Entitled to What the Data Says You Deserve” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rob Kitchin ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The author describes the story as “a thought experiment that imagines a future where a city administration uses a data broker, based on a company like ACXIOM, and their services to make decisions regarding the provision of services.” One  result is to exacerbate existing inequalities. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “You Wanted This” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lev Bratishenko ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A meeting in which reports proposals are made for how to save the planet by eliminating the primary source of damage, human beings. 

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Youthful Indiscretions” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Monica Stephens ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Buffalo, New York, has become SnapCity with all services provide by Snapchat. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.

JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Afterwar Y1 - 2018 A1 - Lilith Saintcrow (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia that is the U.S. after a second civil war. 

PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “And the Ship Sails On” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) ED - Russell B. Farr KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set on a cruise ship that has been sailing for what seems to be decades after climate change has led to sea level rises that has flooded most of the land. A highly structured, class-based society has evolved that the older people are desperate to keep.

JF - Aurum: A Golden Anthology of Australian Fantasy PB - Ticonderoga Publications CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia SN - 9781925212341 978-1-912950676 N1 -

Rpt. in her Dark Harvest ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 125-59, with a brief author’s note on 159.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Before She Sleeps. A Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Bina Shah (b. 1972) KW - Female author KW - Pakistani author AB -

Dystopia set in a future Southwest Asia where, as a result of disease, war, and gender selection by parents, there are many more men than women and restrictions on women, including the requirement to have multiple husbands, are extreme. Within the dystopia there is an underground women’s group that rejects the restrictions, until they are discovered. 

PB - Delphinium Books CY - Encino, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bright Sarasota Where the Circus Lies Dying” Y1 - 2018 A1 - James Sallis (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which people are taken from their homes and placed in camps.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Call of the Wold” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Something of a eutopia set in Canada in a future in which most people are living in intentional communities. Through the protagonist, a woman escaping the corporate world, the story explores the problems of making such a community successful. 

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

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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 - “The Colonist” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Randal Heide ED - David F. Shultz KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set on a new planet, settled from an Earth where most species were functionally extinct. The protagonist comes to realize that he has no role on the new planet, together with the overwhelming majority of those settled there who are condemned to a meaningless life. 

JF - Colony: A One-Shot Anthology of Speculative Fiction PB - TDOTSPEC CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Consumption" Y1 - 2018 A1 - K. M. McKenzie ED - David F. Shultz KW - African Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the protagonist is being manipulated by artificial intelligences and cannot control her desire to purchase something. 

JF - Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Day in the Life of a Socialist Citizen” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Bhaskar Sunkara (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay in which the author compares of precarious life of an average citizen in contemporary capitalist Edison, New Jersey, with such a life in a “slightly idealized version of Sweden” where a eutopian socialist system exists. The title is taken from Michael Walzer’s “A Day in the Life of a Socialist Citizen: Two Cheers for Participatory Democracy.” Dissent (May-June 1968): 243-47, which focuses on the subtitle.

JF - The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for a Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality PB - Basic Books/Hachette CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dessert Heads" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Rajendra Shepherd KW - Male author KW - Trinidadian author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change dystopia. 

JF - Mithila Review: The Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy VL - 10 UR - http://mithilareview.com/shepherd_09_18/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Doner" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tabitha Sin ED - Joanne Merriam KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A zombie story set in a climate-change dystopia in which New York city that is slowly disappearing under the ocean. 

JF - Broad Knowledge: 35 Women Up To No Good PB - Upper Rubber Boots Books CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dry Y1 - 2018 A1 - Neal Shusterman (b. 1962) A1 - Jarrod Shusterman KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A climate change dystopia when the water runs out. 

PB - Simon & Schuster BYFR CY - New York U5 -

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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 - "Expiry Date" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Eamonn Murphy ED - David F. Shultz KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future dystopian England where healthcare has been privatized and each person is given a termination date with their life insurance expiring twenty-four hours later.

JF - Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Free the Bear Y1 - 2018 A1 - C. D. Spensley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

California, which is much more scientifically advanced than the rest of the country, secedes. The ending suggests a sequel.

PB - Author CY - Np U5 -

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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 - "Hard Mary" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Sofia Samatar (b. 1971) KW - Female author KW - Somali-American author AB -

The story is set in a society that rejects most technology and enforces traditional gender roles. In the story, some girls find a discarded AI, manage to refurbish it, and keep it hidden for many years. Some fantasy. 

JF - Lightspeed VL - No. 100 SN - 9781597809887 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 329-63, with an editor’s note on 329.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Individutopia Y1 - 2018 A1 - Joss Sheldon (b. 1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

As a result of Margaret Thatcher’s statement that “There is no society,” a dystopia of extreme individuality: “PRIVATISATION,” “COMPETITION REPLACED COOPERATION,” “PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS DISAPPEARED,” “MENTAL ILLNESS BECAME ENDEMIC" (19).

PB - [Rebel Books] CY - [U. K.] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Intervention" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kelly Robson (b. 1967) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - Lesbian author AB -

The story is set in a high-tech future where children are raised in creches, with the job of caring for them in some cases a low status, low wage job. The story is told from the point of view of a woman who chooses the job and is rejected by her friends on Luna and chooses to leave to raise children in a space habitat. 

JF - Infinity’s End PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. SN - 978-1781085752 9781597809887 9781781085769 978-1645240259. N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 29-50, with an editor’s note on 29; in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/Rebellion Publishing, 2019), 141-65; and in her Alias Space and Other Stories. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2021), 77-109 with “Notes about ‘Intervention’” on 110

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Longing for Earth” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Linda Nagata (b. 1960) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in what appears to be a eutopian future in which Earth has been restored after most people have left to live on one of the many worlds created to reproduce different environments, but then choosing to live as their younger selves in virtual reality. The protagonist is a man who had hoped to win the lottery that allowed people to immigrate to Earth but, after retiring, while waiting, visited these worlds. At the time of the story, he is well over 300 and visiting his thousandth world.

JF - Infinity’s End PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Million Y1 - 2018 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set on a future Earth that once every thirty years is visited by ten billion visitors for a big party. In between times, Earth is controlled by the Million, who have access to all of Earth’s wealth. 

PB - Tor.com CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ministry of Truth Handbook: Excerpt on the Strategic Use of Fallacious Reasoning for Thoughtcrime Prevention” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Elizabeth Rard ED - Ezio Di Nucci ED - Stefan Storrie KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Pretty much what the title says: lessons on how to manipulate people. 

JF - 1984 and Philosophy: Is Resistance Futile? PB - Open Court CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "New Action" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The focus of the story is on resistance to an authoritarian government that has limited the number of contacts that any group can have with other groups. 

JF - e-flux VL - no. 93 UR - http://worker01.e-flux.com/pdf/article_211366.pdf ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Overvalued" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Mark Stasenko ED - Zachary Karabell KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which people can invest in the future of an individual buying them admission to a higher quality university, but, as with the stock market, others bet against the individual. 

JF - Slate UR - https://slate.com/technology/2018/11/mark-stasenko-overvalued-short-story.html N1 -

Rpt., without the response, in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Berg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 127-39

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pacifica Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kristen Simmons KW - Female author KW - Japanese author AB -

A dystopia that takes place after “the Melt” in which a lottery chooses people to be taken to an “island paradise,” which does not exist. The novel is based on the treatment of U. S. citizens of Japanese heritage, including the author’s grandmother. 

PB - Tor Teen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Premium Care” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Brandon Ketchum ED - David F. Shultz KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief dystopia set in a future with profit-making corporate control of health care with restrictions on care for non-citizens and the military enforcing the rules.

JF - Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Queen Colonies" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Annelise Knoot ED - David F. Shultz KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change dystopia where people have moved underground.

JF - Colony: A One-Shot Anthology of Speculative Fiction PB - TDOTSPEC CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rending and the Nest. A Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kaethe Schwehn KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Ninety percent of the world’s population simply disappears, and those remaining. One woman brings together some of those left and creates a community she calls Zion. Women give birth to inanimate objects. Other survivors arrive with other ideas and conflict develops. 

PB - Bloomsbury CY - New York U5 -

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rule of One Y1 - 2018 A1 - Ashley Saunders A1 - Leslie Saunders KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a future United States that has a rigorously enforced one-child rule. One family produces twins, and the girls pretend that there is only one child, each being the child every other day. Then the deception is discovered. The first volume of a series followed by The Rule of Many. New York: Amazon/Skyscape, 2019, in which the twins return from Canada, where they had escaped, to challenge the law. The final volume is The Rule of All. New York: Amazon/Skyscape, 2020 in which, after defeating the resistance, the one-child rule is permanently eliminated. 

PB - Amazon/Skyscape CY - New York SN - 978-1503953161 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sanctuary" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Brian Francis Slattery (b. 1975) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A Sanctuary City that provides refuge for undocumented immigrants is attacked with multiple bombs and weapons by self-styled patriots.

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Warm Storage” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Michael H. Hanson ED - David F. Shultz KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which, in order to deal with overpopulation, everyone over sixty, the infirm, criminals, and, finally, the unemployed are stored for future use, fed minimally, and rendered unaware of their condition.

JF - Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U1 -

The title is given as "Graving Dock" on 341.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Annalee Newitz (b. 1969) ED - Janelle Shane KW - Female author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the medical system of the future where corporations are in control and poor areas are unserved. 

JF - Slate N1 -

Rpt., without the response, in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Berg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 49-64.

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Illus. Lisa Larson-Walker

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Widdam” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change dystopia seen through the eyes of an Indian man, a Native American Indian woman, and a European woman as well as AI’s who are trying to help. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 134.1/2 SN - 978-1941332382 9781781085769 N1 -

Rpt. in A Year Without a Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 233-67; and in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/Rebellion Publishing, 2019), 255-86. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2020 Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kenneth Steven KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A near-future dystopia set in a future England where the right-wing, anti-immigration movement becomes extremely violent, with those targeted fighting back, and the government unable to cope with the problem. 

PB - Saraband CY - Salford, Eng N1 -

U.S. ed. as 2020: A Novel. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2018

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “2084 Satoshi AD” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) ED - George Sandison KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a world divided between those who have established a brand for themselves and the no-brand. The key to power is the blockchain. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Animate" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kate Story ED - Bruce Meyer KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which Bangladesh and Florida have disappeared under water, and Vancouver has been destroyed by an earthquake. 

JF - Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change PB - Exile Editions CY - Holstein, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Barrette Girls” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sara Saab KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Lebanese author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian future where rare earths required in technology are harvested from manufactured people. 

JF - Liminal Stories VL - no. 3 UR - http://liminalstoriesmag.com/issue3/the-barrette-girls N1 -

Rpt. in The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 5. Ed. Cristina Jurado and Lavie Tidhar ([Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2018]), 153-66. 

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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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bring Your Own Spoon” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Saad Z. Hossain (b. 1979) ED - Mahvesh Murad ED - Jared Shurin KW - Bangladeshi author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future, severely polluted Dhaka, Bangladesh that also no longer has a middle class, just the very rich and the extremely poor. The protagonist and a djinn decide to establish a restaurant to serve their poor neighbors.

JF - The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories PB - Solaris/Rebellion Publishing CY - Oxford, Eng. SN - 978-1781084168 978-93-91028-62-6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2. With a Graphic Preface and Afterword by Manjula Padmanabhan. Ed. Tarun K. Saint (Gurugram, India: Hachette India, 2021), 436-447.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Broad Church" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Tess Williams (b. 1954) ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The background to the story is a climate-change dystopia, with the story focusing a woman dealing with her son’s choice to become a dolphin. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 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 - "Dairy" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ashley Sutherland KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of women treated in a way similar to cows with artificial insemination and their children taken away at birth. 

JF - Social Alternatives VL - 36.1 U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Day the Earth Turned Day-Glo” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Rick Shingler ED - James E. Meredith ED - Paul Brian McCoy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a colony is established on the moon and then simply abandoned leaving the people there to die while pretending that they had been brought back. This is followed by the launch of an immense satellite with moveable panels that can block the sun’s rays from reaching Earth, or, for an extortionate price, allow the sun’s rays to reach some part of the Earth.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Destination Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jack [Anthony] Skillingstead (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. is divided physically been the powerful and those without power with the latter fighting back by taking control of the web.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 41.1 & 2 (492 & 493) U5 -

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Endling Market” Y1 - 2017 A1 - E[mma] J. Swift ED - George Sandison KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia in which most animal species are disappearing, and there is a market for any of the last the last remaining ones. 

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

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 257-70. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fallow" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sofia Samatar (b. 1971) KW - Female author KW - Somali-American author AB -

Dystopia in which Mennonite refugees from Earth have colonized their own planet but now treated other refugees the way they had been treated on Earth. 

PB - Small Beer Press CY - Easthampton, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Fifteen Minutes: Turn On, Tune In, Log Off” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Alex Shvartsman (b. 1975) KW - Male author KW - Ukrainian author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which AIs have taken over from humans, who had been destroying the planet and killing each other. The AIs keep the humans just barely alive. 

JF - Nature VL - 552.7684 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fly Away, Peter" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ian Hocking (b. 1976) ED - George Sandison KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which Germany has become isolated from the rest of Europe and rejects all outsiders. 

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Glitterati” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Oliver Langmead ED - George Sandison KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of a future divided between those devoted to fashion and those who are not. 

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

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Growing Season Y1 - 2017 A1 - Helen Sedgwick (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

What appears to be a eutopia in which the invention of a pouch that allows anyone to gestate a child outside the body, allowing gay men and single people to carry their own child. The pouch is transferable at will, which allows couples to trade off. The pouch is the monopoly of one company, so, of course, there are problems.

PB - Harvill Secker CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Happy Hunting Ground” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Corey J. White ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Austrian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a future in which food is short and controlled by a corporation with the support of the police. The story focuses on an intentional community that resists the system. 

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “In the Night of the Comet: A Sequel to H. G. Wells’ In the Days of the Comet” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) ED - Donna Scott KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1905-06 Wells in which the comet in Wells that brings a eutopia is followed some years by a second comet that produces a dystopia.

JF - Best of British Science Fiction 2017 N1 -

Originally published in the author’s blog in May 2017 (http://www.adamroberts.com/2017/05/), but it appears to be no longer accessible. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Infinite Eye" Y1 - 2017 A1 - J[ames] P. Smythe (b. 1980) ED - George Sandison KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a surveillance society exploiting the poor and undocumented.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Irrepressibly Original Daisy Wigmar” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Katie Stevens ED - Chester W. Hoster ED - Katy Stauber (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Flawed utopia in which genetic modification is readily available and chosen to design children and by adults to modify themselves. This has led, for example, to their being few people of color. The protagonist is an unmodified woman who tells of friendship with other unmodified women, one of whom chooses to be changed, and unchanged animals. 

JF - Futuristica: Volume 2 PB - Metasages Press CY - Green Cove Springs, FL VL - 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Knells of Agassiz” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Nina Munteanu (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which all the glaciers are melting and concerns an attempt to create snow to help restore them. 

JF - Water PB - Reality Skimming Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada VL - Volume 1 of the Optimistic Sci-Fi series SN - 978-1-988939-00-1 978-1-988293-10-3 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/02/28/the-knells-of-agassiz/ N1 -

Rpt. with a different illus. in Little Blue Marble (February 28, 2020). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/02/28/the-knells-of-agassiz/; and, without the illustration, in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 52-62, with a note on the author on 62.

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Illus. Digbejoy Gosh.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Looking Back, Looking Ahead” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Maverick Smith ED - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A future Toronto dealing with climate change through high rise gardening on what remains of its building. Much of the story gives the feel of a highly structured, perhaps even authoritarian society, but it ends with it also being a radically egalitarian society recognize the value of all people, with, for example, everyone using sign language. 

JF - 49th Parallels PB - Bundoran Press CY - [Ottawa, ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lotus Blue Y1 - 2017 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A complex, multi-faceted post-apocalyptic dystopia set it an Australia with a badly damaged environment, war machines, enhanced soldiers, and other dangers. The main protagonist is a seventeen year old girl struggling to survive. The setting has similarities to the Terry Dowling’s 1990 Rynosseros series.

PB - Talos Press CY - New York SN - 9781940456706 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "March, April, May" Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Vince] [Haig] (b. 1976) ED - George Sandison KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which The Space, rather like Facebook, controls the news and most human interaction.

JF - 2084 PB - Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing CY - London SN - 9781907389580 U3 -

Malcolm Devlin [pseud.]

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mr Mycelium” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Claire McKenna ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story presents a high-tech Australian society, including farming and engineered animals and begins with an attack on such a farm by traditionalists. But the story also briefly represents other fissures between, for example, traditional marriage and multiple partners and shows both the positive and negative sides of the agricultural technology. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "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 -

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

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

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

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

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Parametrization of Complex Weather Patterns for Two Variables” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Alex Shvartsman (b. 1975) KW - Male author KW - Ukrainian author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change future in which weather control first produced conflict among nations using it against each other, then was internationalized, and, at the time of the story, has been taken over by hackers. 

JF - Daily Science Fiction UR - https://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/science-fiction/alex-shvartsman/parametrization-of-complex-weather-patterns-for-two-variables. N1 -

Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media. EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pink Footed" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Marian Womack (b. 1975) ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Spanish author AB -

Dystopia in which most animals, and birds in particular, have disappeared. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pink Life (La Vie En Rose)” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Nathan Susnik KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a dystopia future that is hidden because most people live entirely in virtual reality. The protagonist is forced to see the world as it is when a glitch occurs. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 8 U2 -

Illus. Dave Alexander

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Right Side of History” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jane [Bryony] Rawson ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story depicts a future in which humans are abandoning much that has been built and demolishing structures to make more room for animals. Not all humans do so voluntarily, but some choose to go through what is called “Transference” and become an animal. The two main characters, a married couple, make different choices. Australian female author.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Scent of Betrayal" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jane Routley (b. 1962) ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia set in a future Australia deeply divided by the wealthy living in urban archologies and the poor living in the hot, dusty countryside. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "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 - “Skinny Charlie’s Orbiting Teepee” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Pamela Rentz ED - Amy H. Sturgis KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

Satirical story set in a spaceship composed of Native American Indians and those pretending to be with conflicts among the tribes and a heavily bureaucratized system of rules. 

JF - Apex Magazine VL - no. 99 A Celebration of Indigenous American Fantasists U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘Slippernet’: Is it ethical to force empathy on your enemy?” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) ED - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which fungi that produce empathy are integrated into a wide variety of products that then change behavior, but the question is not definitively answered. 

JF - Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project SN - 978-1732638808 UR - http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fiction/2017/02/nisi_shawl_s_slippernet_in_slate_s_trump_story_project.html N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Sunspot Jungle. Volume 2. [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2020), 40-49. © 2018 

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Illus. Lisa Larson-Walker

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

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

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

Ray Blank [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sourdough. A Novel Y1 - 2017 A1 - Robin Sloan (b. 1979) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel focuses a woman working in Silicon Valley who is given an unusual sourdough starter that transforms her life. It is difficult to classify in that it is neither a eutopia or dystopia as such but has episodes or fragments of each throughout. For an article on the novel and utopia, see Justin Nordstrom, “‘Food Is History of the Deepest Kind’: Eating and Utopia in Sloan’s Sourdough and Sargent’s ‘The American Cockaigne’.” Utopian Studies 31.2 (2020): 303-13.

PB - MCD/Farrar Straus and Giroux CY - New York SN - 978-0-374-20310-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Swan Song to a Gold-Plated Mausoleum” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Priya Sridhar KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set at the end of the Trump era amid the celebrations over his death. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Today Home” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jason Nahrung ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Male author JF - Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures] PB - Ticonderoga Publications CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia SN - 9781925212549 U5 -

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

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

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

Illus. Kirsten Newkirk

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Trivalent” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Rivqa Rafael ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future Australia beginning to recover from severe environmental damage and the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. 

JF - Ecopunk! Speculative Tales of Radical Futures PB - Ticonderoga Publications CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia SN - 9781925212549 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2019/11/08/trivalent/ N1 -

Rpt. illus. Little Blue Marble (November 8, 2017) https://littlebluemarble.ca/2019/11/08/trivalent/

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Unkindness of Ghosts Y1 - 2017 A1 - Rivers Solomon (b. 1989) KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Transgender author AB -

Dystopia on a multi-generation star ship organized like a slave ship with the dark-skinned on the lower decks with little support. 

PB - Akashic Books CY - Brooklyn, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Useless Citizen Act” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ellis S. J. Sangster KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

A dystopia in which from twenty-five to eighty-five, everyone must prove themselves to be a useful citizen, the criteria for which is set out, or be killed. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 9 U2 -

Illus. Monica Burns

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopian Tetragon Y1 - 2017 A1 - S. C. Smith KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire set in Beverly Hummocks in the Former Republic of Sunny Emissions with an author as protagonist named Willing Participant. The story follows his trials and tribulations, mostly caused by a woman who dances all night in the apartment above his.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Vanilla Rice" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Angela Yuriko Smith ED - Lucas K. Law ED - Derwin Mak KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is about the difficulty of choosing the looks of a child before it is born and the effect on the child. It appears to be a set in a society where police must be paid directly for their service. 

JF - Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Laksa Media Group CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wandering Library” Y1 - 2017 A1 - D. K. Mok ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story begins in a dystopia brought about by scientific overreach, particularly, genetic manipulation of animals that produce many dangerous new ones. The story though is mostly about the way people adapted and were creating a good life for themselves within the dystopian surroundings. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Wispy Chastening” Y1 - 2017 A1 - D. A. Xiaolin Spires ED - Michael DeLuca KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In a future with major environmental damage, individuals who contributed to the damage, ranging from littering to dumping poisons in the water, are punished with very realistic bad dreams or extreme nightmares. 

JF - Reckoning 2: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 2 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/a-wispy-chastening/ (January 11, 2018). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “2100: A Good Life in a Global Economy” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Erik Schokkaert ED - Veerle Achten ED - Geert Bouckaert (b. 1958) ED - Erik Schokkaert KW - Belgian author KW - Male author AB -

An essay that presents a better future that has overcome the most important problems of the early twenty-first century, which are identified as the environment, including climate-change, migration from the South to the North, and international inequalities, which are said to be interrelated. The eutopia has a world, but decentralized, governmental structure, with the world government elected through the internet with everyone voting on the same list of candidates. There is a CO2 tax that encouraged local production and stimulated investment in clean technologies. There are no limits on migration and an international open market, international social insurance, and income redistribution. There are multi-generational living arrangements and joint leisure activities and cultural and religious diversity. The essay ends with a brief section on how to achieve these goals. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "After We Walked Away" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Erica L. Satifka KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A response to Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)” (1973) in which the world outside is worse in its treatment of its children.

JF - Apex Magazine SN - 978-1-933846-17-0 UR - https://apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/after-we-walked-away/ N1 -

Rpt. in the author's How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Disasters (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2021), 117-129, with a note on the story on 324-325.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “As Long as It Takes to Make the World” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Gabriela Santiago ED - Nalo Hopkinson ED - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! VL - Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived by Her Mercy” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which the west coast of California is under water, much of North America is a wasteland, and Fairbanks, Alaska, is the only U.S. metropolis. Gender is flexible and varied. 

JF - Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. SN - 9781849979306 978-1- 4399-1623-0 N1 -

Rpt. Who Will Speak for America? Ed. Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2018), 213-26. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Brownsville Station” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which the elaborate technology that has protected civilization is defeated by the rising water.

JF - Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of Eden. A Novel Y1 - 2016 A1 - Joey [Joseph Michael] Graceffa (b. 1991) A1 - Laura L. Sullivan (b. 1974) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia about a girl who is the second child in a society that restricts families to one child. First volume of a trilogy followed by Elites of Eden. A Novel. Keywords Press/Atria, 2017 in which the protagonist of the first volumes finds an entire city of second children but also forms an alliance with one of the girls of the elite. The third volume is Rebels of Eden. A Novel. Keywords Press/Atria, 2018 in which the protagonist temporarily settles in a sustainable community called Harmonia that belies its name by being rule-bound. She then returns to Eden, finds it worse than before, and leads the revolution. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of Icarus Y1 - 2016 A1 - Caighlan Smith KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

First volume in a planned series. This volume is a dystopian derived from the story of the labyrinth and the Minotaur from Greek mythology. The story continues in Children of Daedala. Oxford, Eng.: Curious Fox, 2018 in which a woman struggles to survive and escape after six months in the labyrinth.

PB - Curious Fox CY - Oxford, Eng. U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cities at Sea Y1 - 2016 A1 - Martin Simons (b. 1930) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a future where, due to global warming, much of the land has flooded, and cities have abandoned the land for huge rafts that float the seas. The cities are strictly hierarchical, there is completely free sexuality, and children are conceived and born outside the body, and are generally presented positively. But the young woman who is the protagonist is bored and chooses to move to another city to undergo changes that will give her gills that will allow her to live underwater for long periods. At the end, new cities are planned that can move both on and in the water.

PB - XLibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cold Comfort" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Pat[rice Anne] Murphy (b. 1955) A1 - Paul Doherty (1948-2017) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change story with most of the focus on an elaborate, and ultimately successful, plan to stop the release of the vast reservoirs of methane in the arctic. The story ends with an apparent eutopia, but with the caveat that billions died before people came to their senses. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Common Tongue, the Present Tense, the Known” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nina Allan (b. 1966) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set after most of the world is drowned and is the protagonist is a marine biologist reflecting on the past and trying to understand the present and how both humans and the oceans and their inhabitants are responding to the new situation.

JF - Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dispatches from the Cradle; The Hermit—Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ken Liu (b. 1976) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change story set when most people live either in space or on submersible rafts on Earth. Mars is being terraformed and plans are underway to try to dry out Earth. Whether this is a good or bad idea is left up the reader.

JF - Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in his The Hidden Girl and Other Stories (New York: Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, 2020), 254-271.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dynamo Island: The Cultural History and Geography of a Utopia Y1 - 2016 A1 - David [Henry Tudor] Scott (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Ecological eutopia set on an island in the middle of the Atlantic that is roughly the size of England. Human scale; no cars and excellent public transport with much use of bicycles; no extremely large machinery. Zero-growth economy. Stress on energy conservation using water, wind, and tidal power. 

PB - Zero Books CY - Winchester, Eng. U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Elves of Antarctica” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a climate change dystopia in which the coastal areas of most countries are under water and many islands have disappeared. There are major engineering projects to try to save what is left and to provide places for the displaced to live. The project in Antarctica, where the story takes place, is to try to keep the Antarctic ice sheet from melting and inundating more land.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The End of the World” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nora Salem ED - Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad KW - Arab-American KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future where a drought has destroyed most plant life and there are few human survivors. 

JF - Islamicates Volume 1: Anthology of Science Fiction short stories inspired from Muslim Cultures PB - Mirza Book Agency CY - Np VL - 1 SN - 978-1537372105 UR - http://www.islamscifi.com/islamicates-volume1/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Even Paradise Needs Maintenance” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Bo[ukje] Balder ED - Chester W. Hoster ED - Katy Stauber (b. 1976) KW - Dutch author KW - Female author AB -

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Everfair Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Alternative history with a flawed utopia, multiracial country established by a combination of British Fabian socialists and African American missionaries within The Congo at its worst in the nineteenth century. Stories set in Everfair are “The Colors of Money.” Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation. Ed. Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot, 2017), 198-217; “Sun River.” Illus. Clockwork Cairo: Steampunk Tales of Egypt. Ed. Matthew Bright ([UK]: Twopenny Books, 2017), 169-87; and “Promised.” Steampunk World. Ed. Sarah Hans (Dayton, OH: Alliteration Ink, 2017), 53-75. A related story is “Vulcanization.” Nightmare, no. 40 (January 2016). http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/vulcanization/ Rpt. as “Vulcanization From Nightmare Magazine.” In The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017. Ed. Charles Yu and John Joseph Adams (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 128-40.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gifted Y1 - 2016 A1 - H[eather] A. Swain (b. 1969) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which exceptional talents can be purchased by the privileged, but some talents still occur naturally, and one focus of the novel is a young woman who is from the underclass and is musically gifted in a society that outlaws music making. 

PB - Feiwel and Friends CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Good Place Y1 - 2016 A1 - Michael Schur (b. 1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A comedy and fantasy series set in an afterlife, a eutopian Heaven created by an individual as a reward for a righteous life. The initial focus is on a woman who realizes that she does not belong in Heaven and to stay hides her failings. In the second series, everyone’s memories are erased with the intent of starting over.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Great Chasm” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Hildy Silverman A1 - David Silverman ED - Glenn Hauman KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In the future, the U.S. has divided into two separate countries, the liberal Blue States in the East that enforce a narrow view of liberalism and the absolutist Red States to the West. 

JF - Altered States of the Union PB - Crazy 8 Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hard Rains" Y1 - 2016 A1 - S. J. Sabri AB -

The story is set after the devastation brought about by climate change and concerns a woman determined to reclaim drought-stricken land. Elements of fantasy/magic realism.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 39 UR - The Future Fire: 2016.39 fiction hardrains U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Human Animals Y1 - 2016 A1 - Stef Smith KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

In an unidentified future, the balance of nature has been so upset that animals have overrun parts of London, and the play concerns the way some people respond to the slaughter of the animals. It opened at the Royal Court Theatre May 18, 2016.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Islets of the Blessed" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nidhi Singh KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Dystopia set in a rigidly structured society where someone can sell their body to be taken over by one of the wealthy needing a new one. 

JF - Flash Fiction Press UR - http://www.theflashfictionpress.org/2016/02/13/short-story-saturday-2/ N1 -

Rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 372-80. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Jericho Blush” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future Australia devastated by climate change in an area the has been used for unregulated weapons testing controlled by a foreign company. It takes place in the post-apocalyptic future of her 2017 Lotus Blue. A related story is her 2015 “Hot Rods.”

JF - Dark Harvest PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston, Eng.] VL - 161-77, with a brief author’s note on 177 SN - 978-1-912950676 N1 -

Originally published in Cyclopean, no. 2 (2016), which is no longer available.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Lack of Congenial Solutions” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kenneth Schneyer ED - Alex Shvartsman (b. 1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia in which after killing off the peaceful on Earth, the remaining humans expand into the galaxy killing or enslaving all the multitude of others that they meet, all of human had evolved into extremely varied, but peaceful cultures. Finally, the various cultures cooperate to eliminate humanity but find that doing so has unfortunate effects on their cultures.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Lutopia: An Ideal City in an Ideal World” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Hilde Heynen (b. 1959) ED - Veerle Achten ED - Geert Bouckaert (b. 1958) ED - Erik Schokkaert KW - Belgian author KW - Female author AB -

An essay describing a eutopian 2116 Leuven, then known as Lutopia, with an emphasis of blending heritage an ecology. World-wide people have been concentrated into cities to radically reduce the negative impact of humans on the environment. The essay is an expansion of the ideal city tradition, with in addition to the usual architectural and city-layout details, material on the organization of housing, schooling from elementary through university, energy use, transportation, the economy, labor, the social life, and governance. It ends with a brief comment on the remaining problems. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mandibles. A Family, 2029-2047 Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lionel Shriver (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The novel traces a well-off family through the collapse of the U.S. economy, followed by extreme poverty, and the establishment of an authoritarian government that confiscated all property (they became sharecroppers). The novel ends in Nevada, which has managed to secede from the U.S. and has considerable personal freedom but also has much violent crime and other serious problems.

PB - Borough Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2016. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Metaltown Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kristen Simmons KW - Female author KW - Japanese American author AB -

Dystopia set in a cruel factory town in which the workers are ruthlessly exploited. 

PB - Tor Teen CY - New York U5 -

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

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Monuments" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia set in a New York City with Brooklyn, Staten Island, and much of Queens under water and many Manhattan streets now canals. Huge drop in world population with “self-deliverance” (suicide) one of the most common forms of death. 

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Fat Chicks" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) ED - Tehani Wessely KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which genetic mutations mean that all women are obese except for a few who take extreme measures to stay thin as seen from the viewpoint of a man whose ex-girlfriend has become fat. It won the Short story Ditmar Award in 2016.

PB - FableCroft Publishing CY - Mawson, ACT, Australia SN - 9780994469014 978-1-912950676 N1 -

Rpt. in her Dark Harvest ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 179-92, with a brief author’s note on 192

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Olènkwáon: we” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Cathy Smith ED - Neal McLeod KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - First Nations author AB -

The story is set in a future where Earth’s ecology has been destroyed. Aliens arrive who, because of that, are unwilling to allow Earth to become full members of the galactic federation and gain access to its knowledge and, in particular, a plant that heals and extends life. 

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

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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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ones Y1 - 2016 A1 - Daniel Sweren-Becker KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which one percent of the population is chosen to have genetic engineering that makes them superior to the rest. An opposition movement, the Equality Society, challenges the system, but turns out to be as authoritarian as system it is fighting. The Between: An Origin Story in the World of the Ones. New York: Imprint, 2017 is a novella published online that provides the background to the series. It is the story of a boy chosen at random to be genetically engineered to be superior who is then demoted by the Equality Movement. The Equals. New York: Imprint, 2017 continues the series in that the protagonists of the earlier works oppose the Equality Movement’s treatment of the Ones and begin to achieve a society where everyone is accepted.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - People’s Republic. A Novel Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kurt Schlichter KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia portraying the left/right (blue state/red state) division of the United States with the right represented as all good and the left all evil. First volume in a series with the same protagonist. The second volume, Indian Country. A Kelly Turnbull Novel. Np. Author, 2017, is a prequel in which the protagonist is organizing people resist the authoritarian dictatorship of the People’s RepublicIn the third volume, WildfireA Kelly Turnbull Novel. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, the protagonist is working undercover in the People’s Republic. In the fourth volume, CollapseA Kelly Turnbull Novel. Np: Author, 2019, the People’s Republic is defeated. another novel entitled Crisis is scheduled for 2020. See also his Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2009-2041. Franklin, TN: Post Hill Press, 2014. 

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] SN - 978-1539018957, 978-0988402966, 978-1734199307, 978-1618689771 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pirate Utopia Y1 - 2016 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history of the post-World War I period and the Italian Regency of Carnaro, a self-proclaimed city-state in Fiume led by Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863-1938).

PB - Tachyon CY - San Francisco, CA U2 -

Illus. John Coulthart.

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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. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Rager in Space” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

A sometimes-humorous story set in a future dystopia in which all computers on Earth have failed, no one can ever pay off their student debts, and peonage has been reestablished for debtors. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Red Thread" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Sofia Samatar (b. 1971) ED - Nalo Hopkinson ED - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - Somali-American author AB -

The story is set in a dystopia after the environment has completely collapsed and people are struggling to survive.

JF - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! VL - Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 N1 -

Rpt. in her Tender: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017): 262-273; and in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 28-37. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ruins of Civilization Y1 - 2016 A1 - Penelope Skinner (b. 1978) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian play set in an anti-immigrant society facing climate-change. See the note in The New York Times (December 24, 2017): Arts & Leisure, 4. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scythe Y1 - 2016 A1 - Neal Shusterman (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a very long-lived society has a cadre of people, the Scythe, who randomly chose people to be gleaned to keep the population in check. First volume of a series, followed by Thunderhead. Arc of a Scythe Book 2. New York: Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2018. 512 pp., in which there are disputes over the morality of the gleaning and the Thunderhead, a virtually omniscient AI, is expected to intervene but doesn’t; followed by The Toll: Arc of the Scythe Book 3. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2019. 626 pp. where the Scythe has become a dictatorship with unrestricted gleaning and others struggle to overthrow the demagogue. Gleanings: Stories from the Arc of a Scythe. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2022 426 pp. collects stories and a poem by the author, his daughter and son, and others.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Something to Watch Over Us” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Mike Morgan ED - Chester W. Hoster ED - Katy Stauber (b. 1976) KW - Japanese author KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future overpopulated but functioning Japan where food is produced inside buildings. Everyone is closely monitored by an electronic “nurse” that requires certain foods, exercise, and so forth. It is programmed to produce what is best for everyone and begins to try to make everyone happy, with mixed results.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stewardship" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Katrina Archer KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

In the story an AI and a robot are caring for a fenced-off area designed to contain one of the few remaining areas that are in ecological balance.

JF - Unsung Stories UR - https://www.unsungstories.co.uk/short/2016/2/3/stewardship N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Is There a Common Future for People and Trees?” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Bart Muys ED - Veerle Achten ED - Geert Bouckaert (b. 1958) ED - Erik Schokkaert KW - Belgian author KW - Male author AB -

The essay includes a description of the Global Government’s 2035 Forest convention designed to protect the world’s forests. 

JF - ‘A Truly Golden Handbook’: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia PB - Leuven University Press CY - Leuven, Belgium U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Three Alternative Histories from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kate Schapira ED - Michael DeLuca KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Providence, Rhode Island, which is located bay that will flood the city as the ocean rises, dealing with climate-change. In one case, there is short-term success but long-term failure. In the other cases, the people achieve temporarily workable solutions. In all cases, the successes depend on community members working together and helping each other. 

JF - Reckoning 1: An Annual Journal of Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake, Orion, MI VL - 1 N1 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wage without Work" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Marten Ovaere A1 - Kenneth Van den Bergh A1 - Arne van Stiphout ED - Veerle Achten ED - Geert Bouckaert (b. 1958) ED - Erik Schokkaert KW - Belgian author KW - Male author AB -

An essay presenting a eutopia set in 2050 in which the production gains brought about by automation have led to a universal basic income which allows the recipient to live however they choose. A man and his family are used to illustrate the positive effects in living, health care, education, which is focused on individual talents and activities that help the community as a whole. Also, financial security has led to greater inventiveness and innovation. Teachers and caregivers are well-paid and human interaction is still valued so some jobs that could have been fully automated have not been.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Walkers" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kelsey Shannahan KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of an apparently unchanging society in which nothing dies, but, because change is essential, periodically turns some parents into “walkers,” part human/part machine beings that then search out and kill their own children. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Well Enough Alone" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Holly Schofield KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a high-tech future in which people wear health “minders” that constantly report to hospitals. An elderly woman who had been involved in developing much of the technology but is losing her memory and ability to function independently reprograms hers to assist her suicide. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 4 U2 -

Illus. Andrea Alemanno

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What Is" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jeffrey Ford (b. 1955) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which the middle of the U.S. has experienced many years of extreme drought.

JF - Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Who Do You Love?” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story is a climate change dystopia where much of Florida is underwater and there are regular devastating storms that get worse over the years during which the story takes place. 

JF - Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Alive. Book One of the Generations Trilogy Y1 - 2015 A1 - Scott Sigler (b. 1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy. In this volume, some teenagers wake up in coffins in an underground cavern with no memory of their past beyond their names. They confront various threats and struggle to find who they are and what they need to do. Sequels include Alight. Book Two of the Generations Trilogy. New York: Del Rey, 2016, which is a typical middle volume in which everything gets worse; and Alone. Book Three of the Generations Trilogy. New York: Del Rey, 2017 in which they must repel an alien invasion. A related story is “The Last Child.” Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 410-20, which is set at a key point in the third volume. First publication.

PB - Del Rey CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “All the Childhood You Can Afford” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Daniel Suarez (b. 1964) ED - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Neoliberal dystopia in which parents cannot have a child unless they leave it as a frozen embryo connected with stocks, and the child, when born, is dependent on the value of the stock.

JF - Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016 PB - MIT Technology Review CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Boxes" Y1 - 2015 A1 - [Nicholas] [Cornwall] (b. 1972) ED - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future with exceptionally good medical care based in advanced technology.

JF - Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016 PB - MIT Technology Review CY - Cambridge, MA U3 -

Nick Harkaway [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Chimes Y1 - 2015 A1 - Anna Smaill (b. 1979) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a country controlled by a religious elite that uses music to limit conversation and eliminate memory.

PB - Sceptre CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Concentr8® Y1 - 2015 A1 - William Sutcliffe (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a new drug to combat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is taken away and causes a few teenagers to revolt. Satire on the overuse of Ritalin.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Consolation" Y1 - 2015 A1 - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) ED - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which much of the U.S. has been destroyed by climate change and parts of the U.S. has joined Canada, which is having to deal with refugees from the U.S.

JF - Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016 PB - MIT Technology Review CY - Cambridge, MA N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016), 263-75 with an editor’s note on 263; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 463-481, with a note on the story on 577-576.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Coulour Me Grey" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Swabir Silavi KW - Kenyan author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which a particular shade of grey is the only color allowed and every action is timed. 

JF - Jalada 02: Afrofuture(s) UR - https://jalada.org/2015/01/15/color-me-grey-by-swabir-silayi/ N1 -

Rpt. in The Apex Book of World Science Fiction 4. Ed. Mahvesh Murad. Series ed. Lavie Tidhar (Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2015), 178-84. 

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

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

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York SN - 9781558619005 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Devil’s Village” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Dayo Adewunmi Ntwari ED - Emmanuel Sigauke ED - Lee Sumaya KW - German author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author KW - Rwandan author AB -

A story that, except for its futuristic trappings, could be contemporary concerns the decision to rescue children supposedly kidnapped and held hostage by Nigerian dissidents in what is labelled a “Devil’s Village”.

JF - Roses for Betty and Other Stories: The Writivism Anthology 2015 PB - Center for African Cultural Excellence (CACE) CY - Kampala, Uganda SN - 9789970921713 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Drones" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Simon [David] Ings (b. 1965) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A poverty-stricken future with major food shortages that require all crops to be heavily protected. Many babies are abandoned to die. Most women marry the powerful with the most powerful having many wives, and the less powerful men remain without sexual partners.

JF - Meeting Infinity PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year. Volume 10. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 485-97.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Duller’s Peace” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jason Sanford KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technology controls everyone in an authoritarian dystopia.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 39.9 (476) U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Evening in the Talk House Y1 - 2015 A1 - William Shawn (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Fascist dystopia set in the near future. Play first performed directed by Ian Rickson (b. 1963) at the National Theatre in London November 24, 2015, with a U.S. premiere directed by Scott Elliott (b. ca 1963) at The New Group in New York January 31, 2017.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2017

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Glass Arrow Y1 - 2015 A1 - Kristen Simmons KW - Female author KW - Japanese American author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which girls are marketable products.

PB - Tor Teen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hot Rods" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future drought-stricken Australia in which the only work available for those living outside the wealthy cities of Sydney and Melbourne, where work permits are required for the available work as pool boys and white maids, is contract labor on U.S. military bases. It takes place in the post-apocalyptic future of her 2017 Lotus Blue. A related story is her 2016 “Jericho Blush.”

JF - Lightspeed Magazine VL - no. 58 SN - 978-1-912950676 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/hot-rods/ N1 -

Rpt. in her Dark Harvest ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 7-25, with a brief author’s note on 25.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Learning Our Bodies, Healing Our Selves” Y1 - 2015 A1 - William Schlesinger ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay on how, beginning with premedical education, to improve medical service for women and others “whose have identities have been pathologized, whose health and life quality have been systematically undervalued” (142). Says that “In my feminist utopia, premedical education would be designed to instill an understanding that health care inequality and unequal distribution of life chances are not genetically programmed inevitabilities, but rather the result of structural oppression” (143). Also suggests that medical education needs to be more interdisciplinary and specifically mentions medical anthropology, gender studies, and comparative ethnic studies. Free medical education (243). Access to medical care a fundamental right (144).

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York SN - 9781558619005 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lesbo Island" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jill Soloway (b. 1965) ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Humorous call for the establishment of a women-only state.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Madagaskar Plan. A Novel Y1 - 2015 A1 - Guy Saville (b. 1973) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Alternative history dystopia in sequel to 2011 Saville in which Hitler plans to resettle European Jews in Madagascar and Britain tries to foster a revolt.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Henry Holt, 2015

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Manhunters" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Kalamu ya Salaam (b. 1947) ED - Walidah Imarisha ED - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story begins with a woman’s memory of having to escape from a dystopia as a child because she was going to be punished for being smarter than her status permitted. She currently lives as a warrior in a society dominated by women with most, but not all, men having low status.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mother's Love" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Dayo [Adewunmi] Ntwari ED - Nick Mulgrew ED - Karina Magdalena Szczurek KW - German author KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author KW - Rwandan author AB -

The story is set in an evangelical religious dystopia in which adherents of the old religions are being killed. Much fantasy. 

JF - Water: New Short Fiction from Africa PB - Short Story Day CY - Np N1 -

Rpt. (Oxford, Eng.: New Internationalist Publications, 2015), 217-31; and in The Manchester Review, no. 18 (July 2017). http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=7855

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New US" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Pepe Rojo ED - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Chicano author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of genetic engineering.

JF - Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016 PB - MIT Technology Review CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-9910444-3-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Occidental Bride” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Benjanun Sriduangkaew KW - Female author KW - Thai author AB -

Lesbian love story set in a dystopia in which to atone for past actions, one woman has to purchase the other as a wife in the hopes that she will attract someone trying to rescue her. 

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 108 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/sriduangkaew_09_15/ N1 -

Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. A[lexandra] M[argaret] Dellamonica & Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2016), 41-58.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Occupied Y1 - 2015 A1 - Joss Sheldon (b. 1982) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia based on the occupations of Kurdistan, Palestine, and Tibet.

PB - Author CY - UK U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Raft Y1 - 2015 A1 - Fred Strydom KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

A complex dystopia in which on Day Zero everyone loses their memories. The novel follows one man through his encounters with those trying to control everyone, those trying to help others regain their memories, and other individuals with varied mental powers. 

PB - Umuzi/Penguin Random House South Africa CY - Cape Town, South Africa SN - 9781415207369 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Talos Press, 2016.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Red Is the Color of Mother Dirt” Y1 - 2015 A1 - J. Y. Yang (b. 1983) ED - Maggie Allen ED - Janine Spendlove KW - Singaporean author KW - Transgender author AB -

Dystopian society on Mars that suppresses and isolates women. One young woman takes a stand against this suppression, wins a first round in court, but loses on appeal and spends time in prison during which she becomes the focuses of a widening rebellion by women. 

JF - Athena's Daughters Volume 2 PB - Science in the Library CY - Salt Lake City, UT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Seveneves Y1 - 2015 A1 - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel of the moon breaking up and raining down on Earth. Much of the novel is hard science fiction with most of the text concerned with the science and technology, but the rest is concerned with three sets of survivors, the seven eves who were the survivors of those who were in space, and, unknown to them, two sets of survivors on Earth, one that went underground and the other that went under the sea. The seven eves created seven different genetic lines with different cultures, including one that isolated itself and developed into an authoritarian dystopia.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tiny Dots" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tuntufye Simwimba ED - Billy Kahora KW - Malawian author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - Imagine Africa 500: Speculative Fiction from Africa PB - Pan-African Publishers CY - Lilongwe, Malawi U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Trademark Bugs: A Legal History” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which Big Pharma releases trademarked viruses, makes huge profits from the “cures”, and becomes more powerful than any government.

JF - Reach for Infinity PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015. Ed. Rich Horton ([Holicong, PA]: Prime Books, 2015), 351-65; in A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: Twenty-One Short Stories of Medicine and Science Fiction. Ed. Gavin Miller and Anna MacFarlane (Glasgow, Scot.: Freight Books, 2017), 172-92; and in Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers. Ed. Ian [George] Whates (Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2020), 352-66. EBook. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Unremarkable Bar on an Unremarkable Night” Y1 - 2015 A1 - s. c. smith ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - US author AB -

The depiction of an evening among friends who include a woman in a wheelchair, one who is blind, and one who is breastfeeding, and everyone is treated as perfectly normal.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Velocipede Races Y1 - 2015 A1 - Emily June Street KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a world where women’s activities are severely restricted, and one woman wants to be a bicycle racer, which is prohibited.

PB - EBP/Emily Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR N1 -

Part of the book was originally published in 2013 by Luminous Creatures Press, an epublisher, and a version of the “Epilogue” was originally published in Bikes in Space. Volume 2  [Cover adds More feminist science fiction] (Portland, OR: Elly Blue Publishing, 2014), 20-33.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084 Y1 - 2014 A1 - Dirk Strasser ED - Patrick West ED - Om Prakash Dwivedi KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which people can be controlled by implants in the brain.

JF - The World to Come PB - Spineless Wonders CY - Strawberry Hills, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Anixitopia” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Vesna Savić A1 - Viktor Sakać ED - Zorica Ðergović-Joksimović KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - Serbian author AB -

Brief eutopia “Anixitopia” comes from the Greek and means “the land of spring” and was established first on Madagascar and then in space. There are three leaders, “the Man of Science, the Woman of Religion, and the Man of Society.”

JF - Embracing Utopian Horizons PB - Filozofski fakultet u Novum Sadu CY - Novi Sad, Serbia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Baggage” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Lisa L. Hannett A1 - Angela [Gaye] Slatter (b. 1967) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a future in which few women are fertile, and technology has made it possible for poor, fertile women to carry the fertilized eggs for a number of different wealthy couples at the same time. The story is told from the viewpoint of one of the poor, fertile women. 

JF - The Female Factory PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - Yokine, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chameleon Moon Y1 - 2014 A1 - RoAnna Sylver KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Parole is a dystopian city inhabitant by many different beings, many with supernatural talents, who are under constant surveillance by spy cameras. There are three other volumes in the Chameleon Moon series: Life Within Parole. Volume 1 [Columbia, SC: CreateSpace], 2016. 269 pp., which is a collection of stories, most of which are set shortly before Chameleon Moon. One, “Happy Regards (7-65), has been rpt. in Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction. Ed. Bogi Takács (Amherst, MA: Lethe Press, 2017), 121-55. A sequel is The Lifeline Signal: Chameleon Moon Book 2. [San Bernardino, CA: CreateSpace], 2017. 447 pp. Life Withi Parole. Volume 2 [Columbia, SC: CreateSpace], 2018. 253 pp. is also a collection of stories, mostly set between Chameleon Moon and The Lifeline Signal

PB - The Zharmae Publishing Press CY - La Mesa, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Community" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Zorić, Jovana A1 - Marijana Stojanović ED - Zorica Ðergović-Joksimović KW - Female author KW - Serbian author AB -

A eutopia in which people can choose among a variety of ways of life, each of which forms a community. The particular community presented stresses education.

JF - Embracing Utopian Horizons PB - Filozofski fakultet u Novum Sadu CY - Novi Sad, Serbia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2009-2041 Y1 - 2014 A1 - Kurt Schlichter KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future oral history of the ways in which conservatives take over the United States, seen as what needs to be done. 

PB - Post Hill Press CY - Franklin, TN SN - ISBN 978-1618689771 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Countermeasures” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Christopher [Tracy] Brown (b. 1964) ED - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the big Silicon Valley companies have become so powerful that they try to establish California as a a separate state and the U.S. government is forced to negotiate. The process is successfully undermined by hackers.

JF - Twelve Tomorrows. MIT Technology Review SF Annual PB - Technology Review CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cycling to Asylum. A Novel Y1 - 2014 A1 - Su J. Sokol (b. 1961) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins with the mistreatment by police in Brooklyn of a man and the ongoing threat to him. It continues with he, his wife, and two children bicycling to Québec, asking for asylum, and the varied problems that the entire family face adjusting to a new country, culture, and language, with the search for utopia a theme throughout. 

PB - Deux Voiliers Publishing CY - Aylmer, QC, Canada SN - 9781928049036 U5 -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Disruption Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jessica Shirvington (b. 1079) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

In the future of this YA dystopia, the smartphone has been replaced by M-Bands, mandatory bracelets controlled by the M-Corp that includes “microchips for GPS, identification and potential medicinal purposes” (5). The system is, of course, misused. A prequel is Corruption. Sydney, NSW, Australia: HarperCollins Australia, 2014. 438 pp.

PB - HarperCollins Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia SN - 9780732298104 Corruption 9780732298104 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Electrified Ants” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jetse de Vries ED - Roy C. Booth ED - Jorge Salgado-Reyes KW - Dutch author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future where a system called the Panopticon, undoubtedly referring to the system of control proposed by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) in which a all the prisoners could be observed by one guard without the prisoners knowing they were being watched. In the story this is done through surveillance technology that is controlling all aspects of a person’s life. 

JF - Altered States: A Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Anthology PB - Indie Authors Press CY - London SN - 978-0-9571130-4-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “How to Get Back to the Forest” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Sofia Samatar (b. 1971) KW - Female author KW - Somali-American author AB -

Dystopia in which young adults are kept in sex-segregated camps and are implanted with bugs to monitor them. 

JF - Lightspeed VL - 46 UR - http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/how-to-get-back-to-the-forest/ N1 -

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015. Ed. Joe Hill (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), 1-13; and in her Tender: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017): 95-110. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hungry Y1 - 2014 A1 - H[eather] A. Swain (b. 1969) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which food is replaced by drugs, but some people still get hungry, and there is an underground food movement.

PB - Feiwel and Friends CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “In the Image of Man” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Gabriella Stalker ED - Christie Yant KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which most activities, including homes, schools, and churches have moved into malls, which have different statuses, where most people eat in the food courts. All teenagers can get weekly loans to shop, loans that they may have to spend the rest of their lives paying back. The world outside the malls has deteriorated, but there are some people who live outside

JF - Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction VL - no. 49 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Influx Y1 - 2014 A1 - Daniel Suarez (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which one corporation controls all important technological innovations by force if necessary. One physicist, who has developed a way to offset gravity, has his experiments stopped and is imprisoned. He fights back.

PB - Dutton CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lockstep Y1 - 2014 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a far-future, galaxy-spanning civilization in which hibernation leads to extremely long lives, and the story focuses on the tyrant who controls the system and his brother, who awakes from an immensely long hibernation. 

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Market Forces: Paradise Revamped” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ian Stewart (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the afterlife, which is now a company.

JF - Nature VL - 507.7492 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Raising Hell” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on both labor unions and hell, in which damned union leaders manage to organize the demons and win a contract with the Devil. 

JF - Raising Hell plus “The Abnormal New Normal” plus “No Regrets, No Retreat, No Surrender” Outspoken Interview PB - PM Press CY - Oakland, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Sassy Chassis Lassies and the Devolution Revolution” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Lisa Sargati ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia in which all vehicles are provided by corporations and are very inefficient. Bicyclists bring freedom.

JF - Bikes in Space Volume 2 [Cover adds More feminist science fiction] PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shovel Ready. A Novel Y1 - 2014 A1 - Adam Sternbergh KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-disaster dystopia in which the rich have escaped into virtual reality in guarded high rise buildings and the rest fight for survival in the streets. Continued in Near Enemy. A Spademan Novel. New York: Crown Publishers, 2015 set a year later when there is a threat to those living with government disappearing, everyone heavily armed, private armies, and corporations replacing what authority exists. 

PB - Crown ublishers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Transcripts from the Investigation on the Life and Death of Alastor de Roja” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Vincent Michael Simbulan ED - Andrew Drilon ED - Charles Tan KW - Filipino author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in an alternative steampunk Spanish past in which the investigation is regarding the death of a man who becomes an activist supporting the colonies against the colonial power. 

JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 9. Literature of the Fantastic PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - 9 N1 -

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

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Unit Simulation: Reconnect with Your Past” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Coy St. Clair KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia of a future where the breeding program had produced a generation where there was no disease or deformity, intelligence had increased, and peace had been achieved, but everyone was sterile and people longed for families. 

JF - Nature VL - 507.7490 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wordless Y1 - 2014 A1 - AdriAnne Strickland (b. 1984) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which the underclass is illiterate, and a wordless boy helps a girl from the upper class, who has healing powers, to escape. First volume in a series to be followed by Lifeless. Woodbury, MN: Flux, 2015 in which the boy is captured and given the power to kill at a touch with the intend of using him as a weapon. The ending of Lifeless suggests a sequel, but none has been published. 

PB - Flux CY - Woodbury, MN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Assault on Sunrise Y1 - 2013 A1 - Michael Shea (1946-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Hollywood studios completely control the lives of the people who work for them and the state of California. The novel is about a town named Sunrise that has welcomed extras from the studios and is being attacked by the State in revenge.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Beginning of the End Y1 - 2013 A1 - Michael T. Snyder KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An exploration of the dystopia that is predicted written from a Christian perspective with the explicit message the Christian faith can help people survive the coming collapse.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dandelion Insurrection: Love and Revolution Y1 - 2013 A1 - Rivera Sun (b. 1982) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of an intended trilogy in which a couple work to sow the seeds for a nonviolent revolt against the corporate dominated U. S. government. Followed by The Roots of Resistance. El Prado, NM: Rising Sun Press Works, 2018. 391 pp. in which the revolution appears to have succeeded, but the powerful still resist and a violent fringe group develops that challenges the nonviolent ethos of the revolution. There is also a companion volume, The Dandelion Insurrection Study Guide. EL Prado, NM: Rising Sun Press Works, 2015. 124 pp.

PB - Rising Sun Press Works CY - El Prado, NM U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Graveyard Shift” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Colleen Anderson ED - Steve Vernon KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The background to the story is the dystopia created by online education for those hoping to teach.

JF - Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast PB - EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Heaven Backwards" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Lisa Silverthorne ED - John Helfers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a United States devastated by climate change inside a religious compound in which women are the collective property of the men. One woman makes contact with an outside world they had been told didn’t exist.

JF - How to Save the World PB - Fiction River/WMG Publishing CY - [Lincoln City, OR] SN - 978-0-615-78353-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - How To Like Everything: A Utopia Y1 - 2013 A1 - Paul Shepheard (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Basically, an argument that the world we have is the best it gets. Set in Amsterdam.

PB - Zero Books CY - Winchester, Eng. N1 -

Parts originally published in MAS Context issue 11 and in Kunstwerken voor de publieke ruimte, Podium Voor Architectuur Haarlemmermeer en Schiphol

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Insistence of Vision” Y1 - 2013 A1 - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which everyone wears glasses that connects them to everyone else with the focus on disabling the glasses for specified periods as punishment for crime. 

JF - Technology Review (MIT) N1 -

Rpt. in his Insistence of Vision. A Short Story Collection (Stamford, CT: The Story Plant, 2016), 29-34 with an author’s note on 35; and in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 36-41. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Kindest Man in Stormland” Y1 - 2013 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of environmental collapse.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 249 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Meerga" Y1 - 2013 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a surveillance dystopia with automated controls on any movement outside houses. In this setting, where most people stay home, an AI is created as what is called a “mere girl,” but is designed to look like a very beautiful, fully developed woman, and the story is concerned with how the family she lives with, and particularly the father and son, deal with the situation.

JF - New World eZine #2 [This version is no longer available online] UR - https://www.bigecho.org/meerga N1 -

Rpt. in Altered States: A Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Anthology. Ed. Roy C. Booth and Jorge Salgado-Reyes (Np: Indie Authors Press, 2014), 82-90; and in Big Echo, no. 14 (January 2020). https://www.bigecho.org/meerga

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Meet the President Y1 - 2013 A1 - Zadie Smith (b. 1975) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The short story takes place in an apparent future with radical divisions between those who are technologically enhance and those who are not. 

JF - The New Yorker VL - 99.24 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memory Palace Y1 - 2013 A1 - Hari [Mohan Nath] Kunzru (b. 1969) ED - Laurie Britton Newell ED - Ligaya Salazar KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The book that was the basis of a Victoria and Albert Exhibition June 18 - October 20, 2013) depicted a dystopia where reading, writing, and remembering is prohibited. The book consists of the story by Kunzru illustrated by those listed (9-80), followed by a brief essay by the curators on curating a book (83-89), followed by a graphic story by Robert Hunter, “Making Memory Palace” about how the exhibit came together (91-107).

PB - V&A Publishing CY - London U2 -

Illus. Abāke, Peter Bil’ak, Alexis Deacon, Oded Ezer, Francesco Franchi, Isabel Greenberg, Hansje van Halem, Jim Kay, Johnny Kelly, Erik Kessels, Na Kim, Stuart Kolakovic, Frank Laws, Le Gun, Luke Pearson, Stefanie Posavec, Némo Tral, Henning Wagenbreth, Mario Wagner, Sam Winston.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Migration" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) ED - Bryan Thomas Schmidt KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on a colony planet called Freedom, which is supposedly libertarian and allows extreme genetic manipulation, and focuses on the struggle to save some native animals from being exploited.

JF - Beyond the Sun PB - Fairwood Press CY - Bonney Lake, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Neighborhoods" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Dean Wesley Smith ED - John Helfers KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A wealthy man, upset by the continuing death in gang violence of Chicago teenagers decides to recreate the entire way of life by building huge, completely self-contained apartment complexes. The story includes details of power sources, gardening, schools, shopping, and so forth.

JF - How to Save the World PB - Fiction River/WMG Publishing CY - [Lincoln City, OR] SN - 978-0-615-78353-6 N1 -

Rpt. in Smith’s Monthly #6 (March 2014): 66-78; ISSN 2474-5294 and in Colliding Worlds Vol. 1: A Science Fiction Story Series. By Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith (Np: WMG Publishing, 2021), 419-436. 978-1-56146-387-9

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Orleans Y1 - 2013 A1 - Sherri L. Smith (b. 1971) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe (hurricanes followed by disease). The entire Mississippi Delta region is walled off and inhabitants assumed to be dead. The young woman protagonist decides to take a baby, whose mother has died in childbirth, across the wall to give it a better life. African American female author.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Registry Y1 - 2013 A1 - Shannon Stoker KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia in which girls are raised to be brides to be auctioned off at eighteen and boys are raised to be soldiers. First volume of a trilogy. The second volume is The Collection. A Registry Novel. New York: William Morrow, 2014 in which the protagonist of the first novel escapes from the U.S. to Mexico but has to return to help her friends. The third volume is The Alliance. A Registry Novel. New York: William Morrow, 2015 in which the protagonist is betrayed by everyone but wins through.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Reinstalling Eden: Happiness on a hard drive” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Eric Schwitzgebel A1 - R. Scott Bakker (b. 1967) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A scientist creates humans within a computer and builds a eutopia for them. The scientist that follows reveals their true nature to them, and they then take over their own destiny and, ultimately, that of the world outside the computer.

JF - Nature VL - 503.7477 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rivers Y1 - 2013 A1 - Michael Farris Smith KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rock of Ages" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) ED - Ken Scholes KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story focuses on an attempt to create a eutopian green future and attacks upon it. Related to Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake Tobias S. Buckell Elizabeth Bear John Scalzi, [II] Karl Schroeder. Ed. John [Michael] Scalzi, [II]. New York: Tor, 2009.

JF - METAropolis: Green Space PB - Audio Studies CY - Np N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Thirty-First Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014), 73-126 with an editor’s note on 73.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "State of Imprisonment" Y1 - 2013 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the entire U.S. state of Arizona has become a prison under the control of the state government and a corporation.

JF - New Taboos: plus “A state of imprisonment” and “Why we need forty years of hell” and “Pro is for professional” outspoken interview PB - PM Press CY - Oakland, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ameritopia 2075 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Corey L. Simmins KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

At the beginning of the novel, the U.S. appears to be a eutopia created by shipping all criminals offshore and using the money saved by closing all the prisons to enhance education, eliminate debt, and solve a variety of other social problems. But this is a flawed utopia serving the interests of those in power in which a small group determines who gets education and work. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Appropriate Response: Class War" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Jeff Samson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian classroom of the future where all students are assessed as to how they should be treated by the teacher and a bright student who accurately answers a question while disparaging her classmates is subdued and removed.

JF - Nature VL - 485.7397 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Article 5 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Kristen Simmons KW - Female author KW - Japanese American author AB -

Young adult dystopia centered around “The Moral Statutes of the United States of America” formulated by the Federal Bureau of Reformation, which replaced the revoked Bill of Rights. The five statutes are 1. “The United States embraces the Church of America as her official religion.” 2. “Literature or other media considered immoral are hereby banned and shall not be owned. bought, sold, or traded in any capacity.” 3. “Whole families are to be considered one man, one woman, and child(ren).” 4. “Traditional male and female roles shall be observed.” 5. “Children are considered to be valid citizens only when conceived by a married man and wife.” All other children are to be removed from the home and subjected to rehabilitation” (53--Article 5 only; others appear only on the dust jacket). The entire list with much more detail can be found at http://www.kristensimmonsbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/the moral statutes.pdf. First volume in a series followed by Breaking Point. New York: Tor Teen, 2013, which is a typical middle volume where the protagonists escape from the authorities and go underground but remain in danger; and Three. New York: Tor Teen, 2014, in which the protagonists reach what they expected to be a safe house but find it destroyed. They then follow leads to where they finally reach safety and freedom.

PB - Tor Teen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Berserker Eyes" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Maria V. Snyder ED - Paula Guran KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which there is a recessive gene for berserker behavior and the society encourages that as a means of creating a berserker military. 

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/RP Teens CY - London/Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Captain Bells & the Sovereign State of Discordia” Y1 - 2012 A1 - J. Y. Yang (b. 1983) ED - Rosemary Lim ED - Maisarah Bte Samah KW - Non-binary author KW - Queer author KW - Singaporean author AB -

The story is set in an authoritarian future that prohibits most inventions and improvements on current technology. The protagonist is a spy for the government who is assigned to eliminate a man who breaks the rules.

JF - The Steampowered Globe PB - Two Trees CY - Singapore N1 -

Rpt. in Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2012), 297-315. 9781616960865

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Collapse: America Will Fall Y1 - 2012 A1 - Richard Stephenson (b. 1975) ED - Susan Hughes KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. faces internal and external threats and a Second Great Depression. In a sequel, Resistance: America Has Fallen. Ed. Susan Hughes. Np: Richard Stephenson, 2013, the U.S. has been torn apart and the main protagonists in Collapse are trying to save it. A third volume was announced but has not appeared. A related story with characters from Collapse, “Spider: A Short Story.” Ed. Susan Hughes (2012) has been published on Kindle.

PB - Stevenson & Powers Publishing House CY - [Beaumont, TX] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dominion Y1 - 2012 A1 - C[hristopher] J[ohn] Sansom (b. 1952) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Alternative history dystopia in which Germany defeated Britain was defeated in World War 2. The novel stressed the ultimately successful resistance. Includes a “Bibliographical Note” (605-610) and a “Historical Note” (611-28). 

PB - Mantle CY - London N1 -

U. S. ed. New York: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown, 2014.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Don’t Mess with Travis Y1 - 2012 A1 - Bob Smiley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel depicts the U.S. under a Democratic president (clearly modeled on President Obama) as a tyranny. The governor of Texas leads a movement to allow states to secede.

PB - Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin’s Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Elected Y1 - 2012 A1 - Rori Shay KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy set in 2185 after an environmental crisis in which all countries are isolated from each other and technology is outlawed to protect what is left of the environment. Also, the countries have agreed to a system in which one family in each country is elected to rule for one hundred years, with men ruling and women reproducing. In this novel, a girl has been raised to replace her father as the Elected so that her family can continue in power, and she must disguise herself as a boy and marry a woman to replace her father. Her country has a small technology faction, but it is following the agreement that prohibited its re-development. The second volume, Suspected. Salt Lake City, UT: Silence in the Library, 2015, complicates the personal relations but focuses on conflict between the country the girl leads and its neighbor, which is much more authoritarian than hers and is developing the outlawed technology and planning for war. In the third volume, Perfected: Book 3 of The Elected Series. Washington, DC: Silence in the Library, 2015, the countries are no longer as isolated from each other and gradually come to cooperate and begin to repair the environment. A prequel, “The Pendant.” Illus. Ginger Breo was published in Athena’s Daughters Volume 2 (Salt Lake City, UT: Silence in the Library, 2015), 193-203 with and “Author’s Note” on 202-03 and as an ebook with the subtitle A Short Story from the World of the Elected Series explains how the girl became the heir.

PB - Silence in the Library CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Eric and Pan” Y1 - 2012 A1 - William [Warner] Sleator [III] (1945-2011) ED - Paula Guran KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia with constant surveillance and severe punishment for minor infractions of the rules. The story focuses on two boys and their escape to where their love will be acceptable.

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/RP Teens CY - London/Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Everything Is Broken Y1 - 2012 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is mostly about the effects of a tsunami on the people of the West Coast of California, but one focus is a small town called Freedom that has cut itself off from all contact with governmental authorities, which was supposed to be eutopian but seems rather dystopian when faced with a disaster.

PB - Prime Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exile Y1 - 2012 A1 - Banerjee, Neelanjana ED - Anil [Ravindran] Menon (b. 1964) ED - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a post-catastrophe Las Vegas in a world where India is the dominant economic force, and Indians stuck in the U.S. are desperate to get permission to immigrate to India.

JF - Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired to the Ramayana PB - Zubaan CY - New Delhi, India U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Forsaken Y1 - 2012 A1 - Lisa M. Stasse KW - Female author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia set in the United Northern Alliance (Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.). First volume in a trilogy. The second volume is The Uprising. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2013 in which the protagonist escapes from a prison camp and joins rebels against the regime. And the final volume is The Defiant. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014 in which the United Northern Alliance is defeated. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hidden Ribbon" Y1 - 2012 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) ED - Paula Guran KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The setting for the story is a dystopia in which the poor live at the top of buildings with constant violence and the rich live in enclosed domes in the hills.

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - London/Philadelphia, PA CY - Robinson/RP Teens U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Honey Bear" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Sofia Samatar (b. 1971) KW - Female author KW - Somali-American author AB -

Climate-change dystopia combined with an alien invasion. 

JF - Clarkesworld Magazin VL - no. 71 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/samatar_08_12/ N1 -

Rpt. in her Tender: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017): 56-68.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lost Everything Y1 - 2012 A1 - Brian Francis Slattery (b. 1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which war has ravaged the countryside along the Susquehanna River and individuals are struggling to survive and reconnect.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Osiris. Book One of the Osiris Project Y1 - 2012 A1 - E[mma] J. Swift KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia. Osiris is a ocean city that had been cut off from land in a huge storm fifty years earlier, and most of the inhabitants believe it is the only city on Earth. Deep rich/poor powerful/powerless divisions. First volume of a trilogy. Cataveiro: Book Two of the Osiris Project. [London: Del Rey, 2014 is a typical middle volume where events become both more complicated and more dangerous. In Tamaruq: Book Three of the Osiris Project. London: Del Rey, 2015, after initial difficulties, the conflicts are mostly resolved. 

PB - Night Shade Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Otherwise" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) ED - Paula Guran KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe, violent dystopia seen through the eyes of a lesbian teenager.

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/RP Teens CY - London/Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction of the Year Ed. Tenea D. Johnson and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2013), 133-157; and in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 356-378. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Renegade Y1 - 2012 A1 - J[essica] A. Souders KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult flawed utopia. A supposedly perfect underground city called Elysium is a highly structured, inegalitarian dystopia that practices eugenics. The novel follows a young woman, whose mother is the dictator, and who has been chosen for the highest class as she learns the truth about her society and by the end of the novel escapes to the surface. Prequels are A Dark Grave: An Elysium Chronicles Short Story. New York: Tor.com, 2012. EBook in which a young man on the surface discovers the underground city and Rise: An Elysium Chronicles Short Story. New York: Tor.com, 2916. EBook in which a young man from the underground who is supposed to kill the protagonist of the first volumes but falls in love with her instead. A sequel is Revelations. New York: Tor Teen, 2013, in which the girl struggles to adjust to living on the surface. The third volume is Rebellion. New York: Tor Teen, 2016 in which the girl and her friends intend to kidnap her mother and exile her to the surface. The ending suggests that a further volume is possible.

PB - Tor Teen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Semplica Girl Diaries” Y1 - 2012 A1 - George Saunders (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in an undefined future with extreme differences of wealth, and the point-of-view character is a man who tries to emulate the rich to please his daughters. He buys a set of Semplica Girls, who are women trafficked from poor countries and used as lawn implements.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 88.32 UR - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/15/the-semplica-girl-diaries-fiction-george-saunders N1 -

Rpt. in the author's Tenth of December. Stories (New York: Random House, 2013), 109-167

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Water Thief Y1 - 2012 A1 - Nicholas Lamar Soutter KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In the novel individuals are the private property of corporations, and one such person discovers and oppositional movement. The author states in the Afterword that he wrote the book as a rebuttal to Ayn Rand (1905-1982), author of Anthem (1938), and Atlas Shrugged (1957).

PB - Author CY - Np SN - 978-1467972277 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Yellow Rose of Texas. A Novel Y1 - 2012 A1 - Dennis Snyder KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Texas secedes from a dystopian anti-religious U.S. government which leads to a civil war.

PB - Concerning Life Publishing CY - Spring Lake, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Afrika Reich Y1 - 2011 A1 - Guy Saville (b. 1973) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

An alternative history dystopia. Britain is defeated at Dunkirk and negotiates a peace in which Nazi Germany and Britain divide Africa between them. The novel is set in the 1952 that such an arrangement produced. See also 2015 Saville.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bioshock: Rapture Y1 - 2011 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The aftermath of World War 2 has produced a dystopian world where the creative person is neither honored nor rewarded. In response a man creates an underwater utopia where such people will be free and rewarded. Based on the Bioshock video games.

PB - Titan Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2011.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "By Any Other Name" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Kim Westwood ED - Keith Stevenson KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set on a world that is trying to erase the past, with everything destroyed when a person dies except for living spaces that the Housing Authority assigns to a new person. Dissident is a bad word and “those called it tend to disappear” (488).

JF - Anywhere But Earth: New Tales of Outer Space PB - Coeur de Lion CY - [Alexandria, NSW, Australia] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of Paranoia Y1 - 2011 A1 - Trevor Shane (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of constant war. First volume in a series. In this volume the young protagonist is an assassin who, meeting a young woman, tries to stop fighting, which is not permitted

PB - Dutton CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flashback Y1 - 2011 A1 - Dan Simmons (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which much of the U.S. has collapsed, nuclear weapons have been used against Israel by a resurgent Caliphate, and there is an extreme rich/poor division. People use a drug to escape by taking them back to the past. The Japanese, who are the rich and the strongest world power, prohibit its use in Japan.

PB - Quercus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Reagan Arthur Books/Little Brown, 2011. An earlier story was "Flashback." Lovedeath (New York: Warner Books, 1993), 153-200. Rpt. The Year's Best Science Fiction. Eleventh Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994): 544-85.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Highest Frontier Y1 - 2011 A1 - Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Both eutopian and dystopian themes. The novel is set on an Earth and at a college established in orbit around Earth. Earth has undergone massive environmental changes, mostly negative, and equally massive technological changes, mostly presented positively, that people have adjusted to. The protagonist is a young woman from an important political family during her first year at the college. A story set in the same future and clearly from a forthcoming sequel is “Landfall. From The Blood Star Frontier.” The Other Half of the Sky. Ed. Athena Andreadis co-edited by Kay Holt (Bennington, VT: Candlemark & Gleam, 2013): 181-200. The female author is a Professor of Biology at Kenyon College specializing in Microbiology, and her biological knowledge is used to great effect  to create a consistent new environment and biologically based technology.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Indra's Web" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

An SF story that focuses on a new power source set in a previous slum outside Delhi, India that had been completely rebuilt using traditional methods and providing a better life for its inhabitants.

JF - TRSF. A special issue of Technology Review (MIT) N1 -

Rpt. in her Ambiguity Machines & Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018), 145-54.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memento Nora Y1 - 2011 A1 - Angie Smibert KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which bad memories can be erased by going to a Therapeutic Forgetting Center and taking a pill designed to eliminate a specific memory. A young woman chooses not to have a memory erased, and she and others who have made the same choice publish a book of memories. They are then threatened with having all their memories erased. The first volume in a series. The second volume, The Forgetting Curve. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2012, is a standard middle volume, with things getting worse. The final volume is The Meme Plague. Las Vegas, NV: Skyscape, 2013, and in it people fight back against the dystopia, but it is not clear at the end if they have won or not. 

PB - Marshall Cavendish CY - Tarrytown, NY N1 -

Originated with "Momento Nora." Odyssey (Peterborough, NH) 17.5 (May-June 2008): 19-21.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Patriot Girls" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Sisson, Amy ED - Bridget McKenna ED - Marti McKenna KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. is in constant future wars and does not produce enough lower-class boys to serve. The Patriot Girls are lower-class girls who sign up to mate with the boys to produce the future military.

JF - End of an Aeon PB - Fairwood Press CY - Bonney, Lake, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revolution World. Ecodisasters. Torture prisons. Fire-breathing cows. A love story Y1 - 2011 A1 - Katy Stauber (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which the U.S. has fragmented into regions, although a U.S. government is involved in multiple wars and kidnaps and tortures anyone they think might have information useful in the wars. The focus of the novel is on Texas and genetic engineering.

PB - Night Shade Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Searchers Y1 - 2011 A1 - Naomi Gladish Smith KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is similar to 2004 and 2007 Smith in that it is concerned with a group of people in the first stage of the afterlife described by Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772) and their preparations for moving to other stages.

PB - Swedenborg Foundation Press CY - West Chester, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadow of a Dead Star: Book One of The Wonderland Cycle Y1 - 2011 A1 - Michael Shean (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of moral collapse. Sequels include Redeye. Book 2 of the Wonderland Sequel. Dulles, VA: Curiosity Quills Press, 2013; and Gathering Ashes: Book Three of the Wonderland Cycle. Reston, VA: Curiosity Quills Press, 2016.. His Bone Wires. Dulles, VA: Curiosity Quills Press, 2012 is a murder mystery set in the same future. 

PB - Curiosity Quills Press CY - Dulles, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Steve Sepp, Tasty! Tasty! No Mean Feast" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Matthew Sanborn Smith KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the parts removed in surgery are served in the hospital canteen.

JF - Nature VL - 472.7342 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tankborn Y1 - 2011 A1 - Karen Sandler KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy in which people are genetically modified, some of them to be slaves in a well-defined caste system. The second volume, Awakening. a tankborn novel. New York: Tu Books/Lee & Low Books, 2013 is a typical middle volume in that things just get worse. The third volume, Rebellion. a tankborn novel. New York: Tu Books/Lee & Low Books, 2014 achieves a degree of equality among the different humans.

PB - TU Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Truth City Y1 - 2011 A1 - Nick Sapien KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Truth City is presented as if it is a eutopia, in which no wants for work, food, or medical care and everyone is supposedly free, except that it is in fact a genetic engineering dystopia of a future where everyone is constantly tested in a “Truth Machine.”

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington, IN SN - 978-1-4634-4088 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Rising Y1 - 2011 A1 - Matthew L. Sexton KW - Male author AB -

The novel outlines the evolution of the human race toward a potential eutopia and outlines some of the principles and elements of the eutopia. What he calls “The Core Theory” consists of three points, 1. “Human Tend to Progress over Time. 2. Short of extinction, this progression will eventually lead to the creation of an idyllic society. 3. Given these two points are facts, the appropriate action is to hasten this progression by discovering the ideals of life and to adopt principles that will benefit this cause.”

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Water Wars Y1 - 2011 A1 - Cameron Stracher KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia of a future where water has become extremely scarce and rationed.

PB - Sourcebooks Fire CY - Naperville, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Afterlight Y1 - 2010 A1 - Alex Scarrow (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2007 Scarrow. In this volume, small communities are rebuilding in a world without oil after the catastrophe in the previous volume. But the usual problems of human greed and hunger for power threaten to overwhelm even these small steps up.

PB - Orion CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Are You Sannata3159?” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) ED - Peter Crowther (b. 1949) ED - Nick Gevers KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

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

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

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Beautiful Girl" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Angeline Hawkes ED - Jason Sizemore KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a post-atomic war future where very few men are born, and those few are tattooed with a barcode that identifies their owner.

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 - "Endangered" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Robby Sparks ED - Jason Sizemore KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia in which the government limits births to clones and the resistance to it.

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 - "The Exterminator's Want-Ad" Y1 - 2010 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialist dystopia.

JF - Shareable Futures SN - 9781596064041 UR - http://shareable.net/blog/the-exterminators-want-ad. Posted June 22, 2010. Accessed February 3, 2011. N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 19.5&6 (692) (November/December 2010): 44-55; and in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 75-85.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Eyes As Wide As the Sky” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gabriela Lee ED - Nikki Alfar ED - Vincent Michael Simbulan KW - Female author KW - Filipina author AB -

The first half of the story is about the creation of what appears a eutopia, albeit a fragile one, after a war that killed 98% of the world’s population, with the survivors, many of whom died, underground. The eutopia is a domed city built for the survivors, although some live a more restricted life outside the dome. The rest of the story is a ghost or zombie story. 

JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - Volume 5. Literature of the Fantastic N1 -

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

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Faithful: 23rd Century Morality. A Mystery Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - Eileen Siedman KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in a corporate dystopia, called the Faithful, that is overthrown and goes underground while the world is reorganized into a eutopia in which all nations disappear into seven regional federations, which brings peace and prosperity.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Freedom Island Y1 - 2010 A1 - J. R. Sinclair KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The U.S. has become a liberal authoritarian dystopia, and to escape it a group establish a eutopia based on the free market on an island in the Pacific. Some of the people choose to return to the U.S. to start a reform movement based around removing all politicians from office.

PB - Secret Staircase Books CY - Lukeville, AZ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Freedom™. A Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - Daniel Suarez (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2009 Suarez in which the flawed computers are destroying and rebuilding civilization, but the rebuilding is threatened by both populist revolt and corporate desire to destroy the system.

PB - Dutton CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Grace Y1 - 2010 A1 - Elizabeth Scott (b. 1972) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult religious dystopia.

PB - Dutton Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - He Walked Among Us Y1 - 2010 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Long, complex novel focusing on a man from a dystopian future created because the biosphere was destroyed, and people live in sealed shopping malls. In the past (our present) the man hopes to stop the actions that brought about the future. The novel focuses on his activities in the present and the people who make him a media star.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

First published in French translation as Il est parmi nous: roman. Trans. Sylvie Denis and Roland C. Wagner. Paris: Fayard, 2009.

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First published in French translation as Il est parmi nous: roman. Trans. Sylvie Denis and Roland C. Wagner. Paris: Fayard, 2009.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kinney and the Vaporworld. A Noah Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - Noah Snider KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of present and near future conditions countered by one man starting a movement based on small groups of people from varied backgrounds. 

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Libertarian Russia" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future depopulated Russia that keeps rigid control of population centers seen through the eyes of someone who hopes to find a libertarian Russia but fails.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 34.12 (419) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Eighth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2011), 468-76 with an editor’s introduction on 468.; and in his Not So Much, Said the Cat (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 182-94. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Marketing Proposal" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Sara M. Harvey ED - Jason Sizemore KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia similar to Jonathan Swift's (1667-1745) "A Modest Proposal" (1729) on the eating of children. In this story, children are used to produce a fine version of ambergris to be used in perfume and for meat. The "Marketing Proposal" emphasis how well cared-for the children are.

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 - "Meat World" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Michele Lee ED - Jason Sizemore KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of complete isolation in a world that has collapsed. The "meat world" is the world outside the habitats in which the few remaining people live.

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 - "Memories of Hope City" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Slater, Maggie ED - Jason Sizemore KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A post-catastrophe city destroyed by an unidentified illness and the society its violent survivors have created.

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 - “The Nature of Bees” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Priya Sharma KW - Female author AB -

Flawed utopia that is a human beehive. 

JF - Albedo (Dublin, Ireland) VL - no. 38 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nostalgia" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gene O'Neill (b. 1938) ED - Jason Sizemore KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a world where immortality is available and those who fail the screening test become illegal and are hunted.

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 - Osama the Gun Y1 - 2010 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which descendants of Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), the al-Qaeda leader, have established a Caliphate in Pakistan and have nuclear weapons. The novel follows one such man who becomes a secret agent to escape the Caliphate and see the world.

PB - Wildside Press CY - Holicong, PA N1 -

Originally published as Oussama: Roman. Trans. Niki Copper. Paris: Fayard, 2010. First published in English as an ebook.

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Originally published as Oussama: Roman. Trans. Niki Copper. Paris: Fayard, 2010.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Overhead" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Jason Stoddard ED - Jetse de Vries KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth had established a settlement on the moon but abandons it. The Earth is a corporate dystopia. The moon settlement is a very fragile eutopia with leaders chosen by lottery and everyone working for the community. It survives and manages to set off into space.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Peacemaker, Peacemaker, Little Bo Peep” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Jason Sanford KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An odd story in which, for unexplained reasons related to dreams, people from churches kill many people including both criminals and police.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 231 N1 -

Rpt. in Writers for Relief Volume 3. Ed. Davey Beauchamp and Stuart Jaffe (Np: Sapphire City Press, 2013), 75-106.

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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 - "Runners" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Christopher Snape KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Aurealis: Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - no. 44 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sarging Rasmussen: A Report (by Organic)" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Sellar, Gord ED - Jetse de Vries KW - Canadian author KW - Malawian author KW - Male author KW - South Korean author AB -

The story is about techniques for influencing other people set among the people fighting against the environmental dystopia that has developed, but no one is presented positively.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Stone Cast into Stillness" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) ED - Jason Sizemore KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where procreation is tightly controlled, and the bureaucrats are machines.

JF - Dark Futures PB - Dark Quest Books CY - Howell, NJ U1 -

Subtitle on the cover of the book Tales of SF Dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Super Sad True Love Story. A Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gary Shteyngart (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian background to an odd love story. The dystopia is mostly concerned with the way high tech companies control people's lives. A related story is "Lenny Hearts Eunice." The New Yorker 86.17 (June 14 & 21, 2010): 92-103.

PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Terra Tango 3" Y1 - 2010 A1 - James Reilly ED - Jason Sizemore KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed U.S. with most people living in cubicles in huge, orbiting spaceships. The story focuses on a popular extremely violent TV program.

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 - 2045: A Story of Our Future Y1 - 2009 A1 - Peter Seidel (b. 1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia.

PB - Prometheus Books CY - Amherst, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Caryatids Y1 - 2009 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An SF novel with fantasy elements set in an environmental dystopia. China is the only remaining nation state and has a drastically reduced population. The Acquis is a green enclave creating a networked utopia.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daemon. A Novel Y1 - 2009 A1 - Daniel Suarez (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the entire world is run by computers that develop a glitch. See also 2010 Suarez.

PB - Dutton CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dark Coffee, Bright Light and the Paradoxes of Omnipotence" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Ben Burgis ED - Rachel Swirsky (b. 1962) ED - Sean Wallace KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future where the Palestinians defeated Israel and now treat Jews the way Israel treat the Palestinians and the way this turns a secular Jew into a suicide bomber.

JF - People of the Book ([In Hebrew]): A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Prime Books CY - [Holicong, PA] N1 -

Originally published in AtomJack Magazine (October 2009), an online journal that is no longer available.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Grasses of a Thousand Colors Y1 - 2009 A1 - William Shawn (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (pandemic) dystopia background to a play the focuses on the sexual fantasies and memories of the main character, who caused the pandemic. Play that opened at the Royal Court Theatre, London, May 18, 2009. 

PB - Theatre Communications Group CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 2014. U.K. ed. London: Nick Hern Books, 2009. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hope Y1 - 2009 A1 - Aaron [S.] Zelman (1946-2010) A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian dystopian political thriller where a President of the U.S. tries to uphold the libertarian version of the Second Amendment to the Constitution on the right to carry weapons.

PB - Phoenix Pick/Arc Manor CY - Rockville, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In Paradisum" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Lee Sands AB -

Brief satirical poem on the character of paradise.

JF - Times Literary Supplement VL - no. 5544 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Forests of the Night" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) ED - John [Michael] Scalzi [II] (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Buckell, Scalzi, Schroeder, and Wishnevsky. This story is set in a city in Northern California based on sharing that is mostly underground to protect it from its predatory, capitalist neighbors.

JF - Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder PB - Subterranean Press CY - Burton, MI N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Tor, 2010), 13-77. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Wild Witch Y1 - 2009 A1 - [Miriam] [Simos] (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Children's book describing a "perfect" over-organized town improved by a bit of natural wildness.

PB - Mother Tongue Ink CY - Escatada, OR U2 -

Illus. Lindy Kehoe

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Starhawk [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Word. Writer's Block" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire in which the Ministry of Fiction controls the production of fiction. Writers work in offices at desks set in long rows and produce fiction on topics they are set.

JF - RSA Journal VL - 155.5537 N1 -

An extract was published as “Ministry of Fiction.” The Guardian Review (March 4, 2009): 5.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mere Future Y1 - 2009 A1 - Sarah Schulman (b. 1958) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which an apparently eutopian New York City (no ads, no franchises, cheap and available housing, high minimum wage) is still controlled by the same rich people as before. There is one large corporation, THE MEDIA HUB. The court system takes lifestyle into account and the rich are presumed innocent and the poor presumed guilty. 

PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Netherlands Lives With Water" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jim Shepard (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of global warming with Holland struggling to stay above the sea.

JF - McSweeney's Thirty Two. 2024 A.D. N1 -

Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 143-71. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Red in the Sky Is Our Blood." Y1 - 2009 A1 - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) ED - John [Michael] Scalzi [II] (b. 1969) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Buckell, Lake, Scalzi, and Schroeder. This story is about a Detroit dystopia with the beginnings of a eutopia based on dispersing people throughout a connected system hidden in the ruins, farming abandoned areas, and gradually developing connections to all the services people can provide.

JF - Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder PB - Subterranean Press CY - Burton, MI N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Tor, 2010), 133-73.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Riot on the State Library Lawn, or Utopia Is the Mother of Dystopia" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Humor in which three authors of 1889 utopias--Joseph Fraser, Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910), and Sir Julius Vogel (1835-99)--visit an exhibit on the future of Melbourne.

JF - Overland VL - no. 196 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Seed" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Joan L. Savage KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a future conflict between Mars and Earth brought about by immortality and the need for more space. Birth is illegal and emotions have withered.

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

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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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stochasti-city" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - John [Michael] Scalzi [II] (b. 1969) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Lake, Scalzi, Schroeder, and Wishnevsky. This story is set in a dystopian Detroit and deals with the beginnings of an attempt to reclaim it.

JF - Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder PB - Subterranean Press CY - Burton, MI N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Tor, 2010), 78-152. PSt, PTU

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Thirteen" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Peter Andrew Smith KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a world in which human physical contact has disappeared from fear of disease.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Hie from Far Cilenia" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) ED - John [Michael] Scalzi [II] (b. 1969) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Buckell, Lake, Scalzi, and Wishnevsky. This story is about a supposedly eutopian city hidden in virtual reality, but there is little detail.

JF - Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder PB - Subterranean Press CY - Burton, MI N1 -

(New York: Tor, 2009), 231-86. Story rpt. in Twenty-First Century Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden (New York: Tor, 2013), 317-52.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utere Nihil Non Extra Quiritationem Suis" Y1 - 2009 A1 - John [Michael] Scalzi [II] (b. 1969) ED - John [Michael] Scalzi [II] (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Buckell, Lake, Schroeder, and Wishnevsky. This story is set in New St. Louis, a walled eutopian community with occupations assigned by aptitude. There is a group outside the walls that has refused to conform.

JF - Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder PB - Subterranean Press CY - Burton, MI N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Tor, 2010), 174-230. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "White Fungus" Y1 - 2009 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in a future in which the economy and all political systems have collapsed, and people are left to their own devices. White fungus refers to the suburbs around European cities, and the protagonist is a male architect raising his son and repurposing areas and buildings to provide food, housing, education, and all their and the community’s needs.

JF - Beyond: Scenarios and Speculations VL - no. 1 SN - 9781596064041 UR - https://bruces.medium.com/white-fungus-by-bruce-sterling-2009-b737317c965a N1 -

Rpt. at https://bruces.medium.com/white-fungus-by-bruce-sterling-2009-b737317c965a; in Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2012), 377-87; and in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 63-74.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wives" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Paul Haines (1970-2012) ED - Keith Stevenson KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a near future environmentally damaged Australia sharply divided between rich and poor, urban and rural, and, in particular, men and women told from the point of view of a violent, poor, rural man.

JF - X6 A Novellanthology PB - Coeur de Lion CY - [Bentley, VIC, Australia] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Alone With an Inconvenient Companion" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jack [Anthony] Skillingstead (b. 1955) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The story is about the way in which humans are replacing their biological parts with mechanical ones, and it is set in a society that is constantly monitoring and correcting everyone.

JF - Fast Forward PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY VL - 2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anathem Y1 - 2008 A1 - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a world where there is an enclosed eutopian organization for mathematicians who rarely have contact with the outer world and is concerned with a situation in which such contact is essential.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black Glass Y1 - 2008 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia constructed as a mystery novel.

PB - Elder Signs Press CY - Lake Orion, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Book, Theatre, and Wheel" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) ED - George Mann KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Religious dystopia..

JF - The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Nottingham, Eng. VL - Two ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Brown Revolution: No longer number two" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. The global warming and oil crises are solved by using the manure produced by all life to replace oil.

JF - Nature VL - 455.7212 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Butt: An Exit Strategy Y1 - 2008 A1 - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire using an imaginary country to skewer the modern world.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Digital Plague Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jeff Somers (b. 1971) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a nanotech plague. Sequel to 2007 Somers.

PB - Orbit CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2008.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hydraulic" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Ekaterina Sedia (b. 1970) ED - Nick Mamatas (b. 1972) ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Female author KW - Russian author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia. Power is produced from rain, and it rains constantly. Almost everything has been privatized, and even recharging batteries is illegal.

JF - Spicy Slipstream Stories PB - Lethe Press CY - Maple Shade, NJ N1 -

Rpt. in Dark Futures [Subtitle on the cover Tales of SF Dystopia]. Ed. Jason Sizemore (Howell, NJ: Dark Quest Books, 2010), 226-37. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Irreconcilable Differences Y1 - 2008 A1 - James R. Strickland KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia in a disintegrated U.S. The corporations are active both on the ground and in cyberspace to keep their power.

PB - Flying Pen CY - Denver, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America Y1 - 2008 A1 - Brian Francis Slattery (b. 1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous dystopia of the economic collapse of the U.S.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking for Mr Piggy-Wig Y1 - 2008 A1 - Andy [Andrew] Secombe (b. 1953) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia as background to a detective story. After the Second Battle of Britain, Britain is poor and has rationing, and the world is experiencing the effects of severe global warming.

PB - Macmillan CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lost Continent" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Greg[ory Mark] Egan (b. 1961) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the then current situation in Iraq and the refugee crisis it caused projected into the future.

JF - The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows. An Original Science Fiction Anthology PB - Viking CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Crystal Nights and Other Stories Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2009), 11-37.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Love in the Time of Fridges Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tim Scott (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia of a future Seattle, Washington, a walled city, that has become obsessed with health and safety. Considerable humor. There are refrigerators hoping to escape to Mexico where electric goods have rights, and they help the protagonist to bring freedom to Seattle. See also 2007 Scott.

PB - Bantam Spectra CY - New York U1 -

The cover adds A Sci-Fi Thriller (of Sorts)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mitigation" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Lou Anders KW - Canadian author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia designed to keep people ignorant.

JF - Fast Forward 2 PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY N1 -

Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 527-55. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Plan C" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tricia Sullivan (b. 1968) ED - Nicholas Royle KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

A story of a girl escaping an authoritarian dystopia. 

JF - ’68: New Stories from Children of the Revolution PB - Salt CY - Cambridge, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Switching to Goddess: Humanity’s Ticket into the Future Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jeri Lyn Studebaker (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a non-fiction exposition of the author’s views on the good society of Neolithic times that she argues was based on goddesses and the problems related to losing the goddess, but the section “The Fix” (238-70) lays out the eutopia she sees arising from “switching to goddess.” It is “peaceful and fiercely environmentally conscious” with communities organized around particular local goddesses who encourage societies that are “playful, risk-taking, sensual, peaceful, and exhilarating.” 

PB - O Books CY - Ropley, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wonjjang and the Madman of Pyongyang" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Sellar, Gord ED - Claude Lalumière (b. 1966) KW - Canadian author KW - Malawian author KW - Male author KW - South Korean author AB -

Korea, North and South, as dystopias but with North Korea especially dystopian, with genetic engineering to meet the leader's whims.

JF - Tesseracts Twelve PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AL, Canada U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Best of Your Life" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Benjamin Stoddard KW - Male author AB -

Satire and dystopia in which it is possible to purchase a better life, but everything goes wrong.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 213 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Circle of Life: Sequel to John of Two Worlds Y1 - 2007 A1 - Robert Stott KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

More of the eutopia described in 2006 Stott. In addition, Earth is saved from its collapse due to overpopulation and environmental damage and a sustainable ecosystem is created.

PB - First Edition CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, NZ, 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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Drosophila Y1 - 2007 A1 - Nick Sapien KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which initially a machine is developed that gives I.Q. within three points. This produces a rigid caste society. Things get worse when someone develops a means of enhancing intelligence. 

PB - PublishAmerica CY - Baltimore, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Electric Church Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jeff Somers (b. 1971) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Violent, authoritarian dystopia controlled by the cyborg monks of a new religion. See also 2008 Somers.

PB - Orbit CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2007.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - First Light Y1 - 2007 A1 - Rebecca Stead (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult flawed utopia. Gracehope is a community next to a lake in the ice under Greenland that had been established by people suspected of witchcraft and driven nearly to extinction. A eutopian society based on peace and cooperation was created, but it has grown to where it must limit births, and conservatives resist expansion, which would require a trip to the surface proposed by a young woman.

PB - Wendy Lamb Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - ["Future Vision"] Y1 - 2007 A1 - Nick Spencer A1 - Robert White KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A brief positive "vision" of what the changes in daily life might be like as sustainable living becomes the norm. Reformist rather than radical.

JF - Christianity, Climate Change and Sustainable Living PB - SPCK CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hollywood Roadkill" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a radical rich poor division with the poor living beside or in the medians of highways,

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 19.2 (69) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jamestown Y1 - 2007 A1 - Matthew Sharpe (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future Jamestown, Virginia being settled from a destroyed New York City based loosely the seventeenth century settlement.

PB - Soft Skull Press CY - Brooklyn, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty Y1 - 2007 A1 - Tim Sandlin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in an old age home where a man has been sent by his daughter, who uses a single lapse, to take control of his assets. The other residents are aging hippies, while he is a sportswriter from Oklahoma, so he has trouble fitting it. But the focus of the novel is the rebellion of the members against the authoritarian system they are forced to live under. Much satire.

PB - Riverhead Books CY - New York SN - 978-1-59448-933-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kiosk" Y1 - 2007 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in a not distant future in an Eastern European country that has experienced the dystopias of communism and capitalism and is going through a new transition based on what the story calls fabrication (three-dimensional printing). The protagonist is a man who has experienced the worst of the previous dystopias and runs a simple street kiosk catering to local people until he installs a fabricator.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 112.1 SN - 9781596064041 N1 -

Rpt. in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 13-57.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Light Y1 - 2007 A1 - Alex Scarrow (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia brought about by halting global oil production followed by economic and social collapse. See also 2010 Scarrow.

PB - Orion CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Glass Y1 - 2007 A1 - James R. Strickland KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia in which a paraplegic can live and work effectively in a virtual world but is still vulnerable there to the usual corporate and governmental plots.

PB - Flying Pen Press CY - Denver, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Lost Boy: A Reporter at Large” Y1 - 2007 A1 - Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959) ED - Jonathan Stahan KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia following a nuclear attack on Baltimore. The story is about a boy who lost his memory. 

JF - Eclipse One PB - Night Shade Books CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

Rpt. in her After the Apocalypse. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2011), 87-99. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Outrageous Fortune Y1 - 2007 A1 - Tim Scott (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Humorous, somewhat surrealistic dystopia. Cities had fragmented into zones based on music; examples are Chillout, Classical, Compilation, Dance, Easy Listening where land was cheap because the area was unpopular, Heavy Metal, Jazz, Rap, and Skiffle, which was in decline. See also 2008 Scott which begins on the same note this novel ends, with sentient refrigerators.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 2008.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Principle" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Religious satire. The original golden plates of the Book of Mormon are rediscovered, and it turns out that they require polygamous, gay marriage.

JF - 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future PB - Chronicle Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Republic. A Novel Y1 - 2007 A1 - Charles Sheehan-Miles (b. 1971) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. responds to internal strife by becoming authoritarian. The novel focuses on the individuals and communities that resist. A sequel is Insurgent: Book 2 of America’s Future. Bethesda, MD: Cincinnatus Press, 2012. A third volume is planned.

PB - Cincinnatus Press CY - Cary, NC U1 -

Cover adds of America's Future.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Right to Work" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) ED - Russell B. Farr ED - Nick Evans KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. The elimination of pensions means that the old must work while the young play. Workers are considered lower class.

JF - The Workers' Paradise PB - Ticonderoga Publishers CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Silverstream Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jillian Sullivan (b. 1967) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia about a society that enforces its rules by sending dissidents to work camps. A young woman successfully fights the regime.

PB - Pearson Education New Zealand CY - Rosedale, North Shore, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Suicide: Or the Future of Medicine. (A ‘Satire by Entelechy’ of Biotechnology)” Y1 - 2007 A1 - Eric Shouse KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Primarily a commentary on Kenneth Burke’s satire “Waste or the Future of Prosperity” (1930) but a short section, “A satire by Entelechy of Biotechnology,” projects a future in which nanotechnology will be used to rid the world of the “active seniors” who are collecting their pensions without contributing to society.

JF - KB Journal: The Journal of the Kenneth Burke Society VL - 4.1 UR - http://www.kbjournal.org/shouse ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unwind Y1 - 2007 A1 - Neal Shusterman (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which until eighteen teenagers are used for body parts, the harvesting of which is called "unwinding". Sequels include UnWholly: Book 2 of the Unwind Trilogy. New York: Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2012; UnSouled: Book 3 of the Unwind Dystology. New York: Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2013; UnBound: Stories from the Unwind World. New York: Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2015; and UnDivided: Book 4 of the Unwind Dystology. New York: Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2014 in which the dystopia is finally defeated. A number of stories are co-authored, including Unfinished Symphony” (21-61), “UnStrung” (113-55), and “UnTithed” (217-40) by Michelle Knowlden; “UnDevoured” (63-81) by Jarrod Shusterman; “UnClean” (83-111) by Terry Black; and “Unnatural Selection” (157-203) by Brendan Shusterman.

PB - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Visitors Y1 - 2007 A1 - John [Alexander] Stewart KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Labeled an allegory, the story is about advanced aliens who arrive on Earth with the intent of helping the human race. While they leave without bringing about dramatic change, their positive influence will produce a better world. Something of a New Age perspective.

PB - Shepheard-Walwyn CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wanderers Y1 - 2007 A1 - Naomi Gladish Smith KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is similar to 2004 Smith in that it is concerned with a group of people in the first stage of the afterlife described by Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772) and their preparations for moving to other stages. See also 2011 Smith. 

PB - Chrysalis Books CY - West Chester, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Working Dead of Heehaw's Australia" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jenny Schwartz ED - Russell B. Farr ED - Nick Evans KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. As a result of deliberate cuts in health care and the elimination of workplace rights, a large supply of zombies is available to replace workers. A direct commentary on the policies of John Howard (b. 1939), Australian Prime Minister 1996-2007.

JF - The Workers' Paradise PB - Ticonderoga Publishers CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blue Stars for All Saviors' Day" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) ED - Nicole R. Murphy KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of violence.

JF - The Outcast: An Anthology of Exiles and Strangers PB - Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild CY - Canberra, ACT, Australia U2 -

Illus. on p. 106

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future Y1 - 2006 A1 - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An odd future with both eutopian and dystopian elements based on the notebooks of a twentieth century London taxi driver.

PB - Viking CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Collapse Y1 - 2006 A1 - Jeff Stanfield KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the Chinese and the North Koreans invade the U.S.

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Culled Y1 - 2006 A1 - Simon Spurrier (b. 1981) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The first volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. This volume describes the immediate effects of a plague that kills most of the world's population. This is a complex series with multiple authors who take the series in different directions from this origin. For other volumes, see 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.

PB - Abaddon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Afterblight Chronicles: America (Oxford, Eng.: Abaddon UK & Rebellion/Abaddon US, 2011), 5-261.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ". . . the darkest evening of the year. . ." Y1 - 2006 A1 - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) ED - Richard Labonté ED - Lawrence Schimel (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia with threatened eutopian enclaves. The eutopian elements are composed of those who practice an old religion based in nature; the dystopia is the official oppression of the eutopia.

JF - The Future Is Queer PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in her in her Ice and Other Stories (Hornsea, Eng: PS Publishing, 2018), 189-209, with a note on the story (304-05). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Debt of the Innocent" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Rachel Swirsky (b. 1962) ED - Farah Mendlesohn KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia that requires reduced electricity supplies even to hospitals. This results in babies being allowed to die or even being killed to save others.

JF - Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction PB - Rackstraw Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Die Umkehr" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Susan R. Matthews (b. 1952) ED - Don Sakers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian religious dystopia.

JF - Gaylaxicon Sampler 2006 PB - Speed-of-C Productions CY - Linthicum, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Down in The Corridor" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Robert Lopresti ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the Pacific states have seceded from the U.S. as a result of U.S. policies under George W. Bush. The P.S.A. is presented more positively, but the story concerns the continuing struggle between the two countries.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Escape From New Austin" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

New Austin is in Agnostica, which is completely surrounded by Faithland. Agnostica is presented as a liberal eutopia; Faithland is conservative and mildly dystopian.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Field Work" Y1 - 2006 A1 - J. Stern ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a divided U.S. with the liberal states having defeated the conservative states.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glasshouse Y1 - 2006 A1 - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia. A future experimental polity ruled by the experimenters as one aspect of a novel about conflict in a high-tech future.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Going to See the Beast" Y1 - 2006 A1 - William Sanders (1942-2017) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Dystopian humor regarding life after the Rapture (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17).

JF - Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly UR - www.helixsf.com. ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Good Society. Compass Programme for Renewal Y1 - 2006 ED - Jonathan Rutherford ED - Hetan Shah AB -

Very broad and general statement of the current conditions in the U.K. and some things to be done to end poverty and produce both a sustainable and a caring society. This is accompanied by two other volumes, Hetan Shah and Martin McIvor, eds. A New Political Economy. Compass Programme for Renewal. London: Compass in association with Lawrence & Wishart, 2006 proposing a wide range of economic reforms; and Hetan Shah and Sue Goss, eds. Democracy and the Public Realm. London: Compass in association with Lawrence & Wishart, 2006 proposing more direct democracy.

PB - Compass in association with Lawrence & Wishart CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Homecoming At the Borderlands Cafe" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Carole McDonnell ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. has divided into two countries, the liberal East and the conservative Christian West. Both are presented as intolerant of difference.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Destroyed by Google” Y1 - 2006 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A brief story set in 2026 in a United States that has put strict restrictions on the activities and purchases of teenagers.

JF - New Scientist VL - 19.2569 SN - 9781596064041 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0262-4079(06)60503-4 N1 -

Rpt. in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 9-12.

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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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - John of Two Worlds Y1 - 2006 A1 - Robert Stott KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A man from earth is revived on another planet far in the future. This world is a technological eutopia with environmentally sound and socially healthy policies. The Earth meanwhile is in serious trouble and a plan is put in place to save it. See also 2007 Stott.

PB - First Edition Ltd CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Man From Missouri" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Patrick Thomas (b. 1952) ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the U.S. with slavery.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Meadowlark Sings Y1 - 2006 A1 - Helen Ruth Schwartz KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. In the near future, an earthquake separates part of California from the United States. This provides the location for a new independent gay and lesbian country, which is needed because an anti-gay movement has come to dominate the U.S. Some reconciliation takes place throughout the novel. 

PB - Alice Street Editions, Harrington Park Press CY - Binghamton, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Minutes of the Labour Party Conference, 2016" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) ED - Farah Mendlesohn KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of complete surveillance.

JF - Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction PB - Rackstraw Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Patriot" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Fitzgerald, Erin ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian background of a U.S. divided between liberals and conservatives.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Peace Criminal" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Vaughan Stanger (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia in which a Nazi regime had been established in Britain.

JF - Postscripts VL - no. 9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Places of Color" Y1 - 2006 A1 - David Bartell ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian background about a U.S. divided between liberals and conservatives with states seceding and visas needed to enter another state.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Return to Nowhere" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Ruth Nestvold (b. 1958) A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future U.S. with slavery and with an underground railway running to the free areas of the Northwest.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rhymes With Jew" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Paul G. Tremblay (b. 1971) ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future U.S. that is conservative, anti-Semitic, racist, and very poor.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Scenes from a Dystopia” Y1 - 2006 A1 - Rachel Swirsky (b. 1962) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on dystopian fiction.

JF - Subterranean VL - no. 4 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "State of Blues" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Gene Stewart (b. 1958) ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a divided U.S. with both sections intolerant but with the liberal states presented more positively.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Switch" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Darby Harn ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a disintegrated United States with the parts in conflict.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "This Divided Land" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Michael Jasper ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a divided U.S. as background to the story.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Waking Waco" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Goodfellow, Cody ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story is a disintegrated U.S. focusing on Waco, Texas, and the theme park Freedomland, which honors fighters for freedom, like Timothy McVeigh (1968-2001), the Oklahoma City bomber.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "100% Pure Conjecture: Accounts of our Future State(s)" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Bob Frame A1 - Pala Molisa A1 - Rhys Taylor A1 - Hemi Toia A1 - Wong Liu Shueng ED - James H. Liu ED - Tim McCreanor ED - Tracey McIntosh ED - Teresia Teaiwa KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Set in 2055 in a much-diminished future. Describes four scenarios for a future New Zealand, two based on plenty and two based on depleted resources, in two of which the emphasis is on community cohesion and in two of which the emphasis is on the individual. The revised version of 2007 dispenses with the discussion format and changes the order of the scenarios and the names of two of them.

JF - New Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations PB - Victoria University Press CY - Wellington N1 -

Published separately as a screenplay Wellington, New Zealand: Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd., 2005 [Available at http:www.landcareresearch.co.nz/services/sustainablesoc/futures/publications.asp]. A larger version published as Work in Progress. Four Scenarios for New Zealand. Developed by The Landcare Research Scenarios Working Group. 2nd ed. Lincoln, New Zealand: Manaaki Whenua Press, 2007. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Black Arrow: A Tale of Resistance Y1 - 2005 A1 - Vin Suprynowicz (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia from a libertarian perspective and the struggle against it.

PB - Mountain Media CY - Las Vegas, NV U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil Y1 - 2005 A1 - George Saunders (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire and humor. Inner Horner can only hold one citizen at a time. Outer Horner, under its leader Phil, tries to collect taxes from those waiting to enter Inner Horner and starts a conflict.

PB - Riverhead Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. "The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil." In his The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil and In Persuasion Nation (London Bloomsbury, 2006), 1-92.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Brother's Price Y1 - 2005 A1 - [Wendy] [Kosak] (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with a happy ending. Future where few males are born and the difficulty of true love when each male must marry many women.

PB - Roc CY - New York U3 -

Wen Spencer [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Coyote Frontier: A Novel of Interstellar Exploration Y1 - 2005 A1 - Allen M[ulherin] Steele [Jr.] (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Final volume of a trilogy. See 2002 and 2004 Steele. In this volume, while Coyote won its freedom from Earth, its infrastructure has deteriorated and requires costly replacement. Earth, meanwhile, is in ruins, and Coyote is the best available planet for its population. Conflicts develop among the people of Coyote and with the people from Earth. His Spindrift. New York: Ace Books, 2007. U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2007 is a first contact novel that uses the setting of the Coyote novels, and his Galaxy Blues. New York: Ace Books, 2008 is set in the same universe. Three novels that relate to and continue aspects of Coyote history are Coyote Horizon: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2009; part originally published as “Walking Star.” Forbidden Planets. Ed. Marvin Kaye (New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2006), 49-98; Coyote Destiny: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2010.; and Hex. New York: Ace Books, 2011.  A related story that is set after the events of this novel is “Barren Isle.” Asimov’s Science Fiction (January-February 2018): 132-48.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Deep Blue Sea" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Peter Hobbs ED - Toby Litt ED - Ali Smith KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Environmental dystopia.

JF - Picador New Writing PB - Picador in association with the British Council and Arts Council England CY - London VL - 13 N1 -

Rpt. in his I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train (London: Faber & Faber, 2006), 7-23.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Devil's Utopia. A Novel Y1 - 2005 A1 - J[ason] Schimschal KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which young people, as a rite of passage, must search the wasteland for relics and lost technologies. None have ever returned among those who went east, and the novel focuses on a new group who choose to go east. Sequels that are concerned with what they find there include Ruins of America. A Novel. Northglenn, CO: Fossil Ridge Books, 2006, which sets the scene of war and mass destruction; Iron Messiah. A Novel. Northglenn, CO: Fossil Ridge Books, 2007 about the search for an ultimate weapon; Prophet of Sorrow. A Novel. Northglenn, CO: Fossil Ridge Books, 2010 about the problems faced in protecting the homeland; and Heroes of the Rising Moon. A Novel. Northglenn, CO: Fossil Ridge Books, 2012 where success is achieved. See also http://www.darkenrealm.com/

PB - Trident Publishing CY - Sandy, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Digital Day" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Jan [Johannes] Amkreutz ED - Arthur B. Shostak KW - Dutch author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia.

JF - Moving Along: Far Ahead. Volume Four of Tackling Tomorrow Today PB - Chelsea House Publishers CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Emperor" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Lucius [Taylor] Shepard (1943-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Corporate destruction of the environment.

JF - Scifiction SN - 978-848630-35-2 UR - www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted December 14, 2005. No longer available on line. N1 -

Rpt. in his Viator Plus (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2009), 3-63.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Future Heroes 2035: My Friends and I" Y1 - 2005 A1 - John Smart ED - Arthur B. Shostak KW - Male author AB -

Technological eutopia as seen through the eyes of a teenager. The story is continued in his “Future Heroes 2035: The Big Picture.” Volume Four of Tackling Tomorrow Today. Ed. Arthur B. Shostak (Np: Chelsea House Publishers, 2005), 30-43, with the story on 30-41. 

JF - Futuristics: Looking Ahead. Volume One of Tackling Tomorrow Today PB - Chelsea House Publishers CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous eutopia. A future recreated Arcadia with nymphs and satyrs.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 29.7 (354) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hunted Y1 - 2005 A1 - Alex Shearer (b. 1949) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia in which most people look youthful and live long lives and few children are born. The few children are consider prize possessions and are bought and sold or stolen.

PB - Macmillan's Children Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ivory Tower: A Place to call your own" Y1 - 2005 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia.

JF - Nature 434.7034 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 274-77.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "January 2051: A Letter To My Best Bud in Bangladesh" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Linda Brown ED - Arthur B. Shostak KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia predicated on the world coming together after 9/11 and in the process of becoming unified.

JF - America: Moving Ahead. Volume Two of Tackling Tomorrow Today PB - Chelsea House Publishers CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lone and Level Sands" Y1 - 2005 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) ED - Ernest Lilley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia.

JF - Future Washington PB - Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) CY - Washington, DC ER - TY - ABST T1 - Moped Army Y1 - 2005 A1 - Paul Sizer (b. 1963) ED - Daniel Robert Kastner ED - Simon King ED - Jane Irwin KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Graphic novel dystopia set in a world where gasoline was illegal with a focus on conflict between the very wealth young people who live high in the cities and the poor young people who live in the crumbling underground.

PB - Café Digital Comics CY - Kalamazoo, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Overdrive Y1 - 2005 A1 - Phillip W. Simpson (b. 1971) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian science fiction novel set in 3149. Primarily adventure and intrigue, but the setting includes a struggle for power in an authoritarian society.

PB - Arete Publishing Ltd CY - Remuera [Auckland], New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Patralmador Paradox: Seduction and Salvation of Planet Earth Y1 - 2005 A1 - Paul [S.] Sandhaus KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia on the planet Patralmador, which is trying to recruit people from Earth who are likely to shake up Patralmador’s complacency. Equality. Live in compatible groups; no families. Children live by age group. No competitive sport; no organized religion; abundance. 

PB - iUniverse, Inc CY - Lincoln, NE U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Protector's War Y1 - 2005 A1 - S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe societies, some dystopian and others struggling to be good societies.

PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zanesville Y1 - 2005 A1 - Kris Saknussemm (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia with fantasy elements.

PB - Villard Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "According to Their Need" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Michael A[ustin] Stackpole (b. 1957) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of no government or laws but with a paternalistic computer system that fills needs as it perceives them.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 377-401.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Affinity Trap Y1 - 2004 A1 - Martin Sketchley (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia, but the emphasis is on adventure. Collapsed social order and environmental degradation has forced people to live inside large towers. Military dictatorship.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Arrivals Y1 - 2004 A1 - Naomi Gladish Smith KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel follows a group of travelers into the first stage of the afterlife described by Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772) and their preparations for moving to other stages. See also 2007 and 2001 Smith. 

PB - Chrysalis Books CY - West Chester, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Big Empty. Paradise City Y1 - 2004 A1 - [Elizabeth J.] [Braswell] KW - Female author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe eutopia under threat. Sequel to the non-utopian J.B. Stephens, The Big Empty. New York: Razorbill, 2004 where a virus kills half the population. Further sequels include Stephens, The Big Empty. Desolation Angels. New York: Razorbill, 2005 and [Braswell], The Big Empty. No Exit. New York: Razorbill, 2005, both of which concern responses to the threat to the eutopia. It is likely that the various volumes were written by different authors with Stephens as a blanket pseudonym, but the volumes by Braswell are the only ones that can be identified.

PB - Razorbill CY - New York U3 -

J. B. Stephens [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Coyote Rising: A Novel of Interstellar Revolution Y1 - 2004 A1 - Allen M[ulherin] Steele [Jr.] (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2002 Steele. After settling a new planet and establishing a free system, the planet Coyote receives more ships from Earth and a repressive government. Struggle for freedom. See also 2005 Steele. An additional story that fits between this volume and the next one is “The River Horses.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 31.4 & 5 (375 & 376) (April-May 2007): 26-71; rpt. as The River Horses.  Burton ,  MI : Subterranean Press, 2007. His Spindrift. New York: Ace Books, 2007. U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2007 is a first contact novel that uses the setting of the Coyote novels, and his Galaxy Blues. New York: Ace Books, 2008 is set in the same universe. Three novels that relate to and continue aspects of Coyote history are Coyote Horizon: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2009; part originally published as “Walking Star.” Forbidden Planets. Ed. Marvin Kaye (New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2006), 49-98; Coyote Destiny: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2010; and Hex. New York: Ace Books, 2011. An additional story that fits between this volume and the next one is “The River Horses.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 31.4 & 5 (375 & 376) (April-May 2007): 26-71; rpt. as The River Horses. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rev. from "The Mad Woman of Shuttlefield." Asimov's Science Fiction 27.5 (328) (May 2003): 64-85; rpt. in The Year's Best SF 9. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2004), 354-87; "Benjamin the Unbeliever." Asimov's Science Fiction 27.8 (August 2003): 86-130; "The Garcia Narrows Bridge." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.1 (336) (January 2004): 66-85; "Thompson's Ferry." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.3 (338) (March 2004): 84-96; "Incident at Goat Kill Creek." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.4 & 5 (339 & 340) (April/May 2004): 82-124; "Shady Grove." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.7 (342) (July 2004): 16-47; "Liberation Day." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.10 & 11 (October-November 2004): 188-229; and "Home of the Brave." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.12 (347) (December 2004): 46-60.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Delhi" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) ED - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) ED - Uppinder Mehan KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

The story contrasts the dystopian present of India with brief flashes of eutopian and dystopian futures.

JF - So Long Been Dreaming PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslin Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 (June 2016): 229-42; and in The Best of World SF: Volume 1. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Ad Astra/Head of Zeus, 2021), 125-47

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Futureways Y1 - 2004 ED - Rita McBride ED - Glen Rubsamen KW - Canadian author KW - Dutch author KW - Female author KW - German author KW - Portuguese author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Fourteen stories from thirteen authors with only the first story with an identified author. All the stories are set in or refer to futures, mostly dystopian, and connect to art exhibits. The authors listed are Laura Cottingham, as Ying Zong 4217 [pseud.]; Nick Crowe; Aline Duriaud; Nalo Hopkinson; Nico Israel; Matthew Licht; Peter Maass; Rita McBride; Alexandre Melo, whose story was translated from the Portuguese by Brad Cherry; Glen Rubsamen; Brad Schafer; Mark von Schlegell; and Roger Wolfson.

PB - Arsenal Pulp Press/Whitney Museum of American Art/Printed Matter, Inc. CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada/New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Home by the Sea" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Future that has resulted from global warming where the majority of the remaining world's population live in extreme poverty crowded onto small islands and large rafts. A few wealthy people live in luxury on heavily guarded islands.

JF - Orb: Speculative Fiction VL - no. 6 N1 -

Rpt. in Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Volume 1). Ed. Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt (Parramatta, NSW: MirrorDanse Books, 2005), 157-81.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Humanism: A Philosophic-Ethical-Political-Economic Study of the Development of Society Y1 - 2004 A1 - Aleksandar Šarović KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed non-fiction eutopia based on direct democracy. His “Heaven.” http:/www/sarovic.com/screenplay.html [2010]. Accessed June 17, 2010 is a fictional version.

UR - http://www.sarovic.com. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Life in Globus Cassus" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Michael Stauffer A1 - Christian Waldvogel KW - Male author KW - Swiss author AB -

Essay briefly describing the eutopian life, which emphasizes equality and freedom, in their newly created space, which is described as “a successful social sculpture” (93). Globus Cassus has been created from Earth but is larger than Earth so as to be able to hold Earth’s large and growing population.

JF - Globus Cassus PB - Bundesamt für Kultur CY - Bern, Switzerland U4 -

In German and English on facing pages with summaries in French (152-54) and Italian (168-70).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Martingale Inequalities" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Karen Sandler KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia and struggle against it.

JF - Neo-Opsis: Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nectar" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia through advanced biotechnology.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 28.1 (336) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Party's Over: Blueprint for a Very English Revolution Y1 - 2004 A1 - Keith Sutherland KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Nonfiction proposal for government without political parties, which will produce a eutopia. Somewhat revised as A People's Parliament: A (Revised) Blueprint for a Very English Revolution. Exeter, Eng.: Imprint Academic. Bound back to back with Ernest Callenbach and Michael Phillips. A Citizen Legislature. O

PB - Imprint Academic CY - Exeter, England N1 -

Somewhat revised as A People’s Parliament: A (Revised) Blueprint for a Very English Revolution. Exeter, Eng.: Imprint Academic, 1985. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rapture of the Nerds: Jury Service and Appeals Court Y1 - 2004 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) A1 - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire. Complex depiction of a future world and the thousands of inhabited areas in space around it. Many different cultures on Earth. Focus on technology.

PB - The Coppervale Company CY - Silvertown, AZ U5 -

Merril

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 - "The Right's Tough" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Robert J[ames] Sawyer (b. 1960) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Libertarian eutopia, which needs no government because every detail of everyone's life is instantly accessible by web to everyone else, who then shun those who do not conform to the society's standards of good behavior.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 337-45; n his Identity Theft and Other Stories (Calgary, AL, Canada: Red Deer Press, 2008), 195-204; and in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 51-59.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Temenos" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Kim Westwood ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. People are used as power sources feeding into the electricity grid.

JF - Agog! Smashing Stories PB - Agog! Press CY - Wollongong, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Truesight Y1 - 2004 A1 - David Stahler Jr. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia. Authoritarian community where everyone is supposed to be blind; stress on the struggles of dissidents and a boy who gains his sight. First volume of a trilogy. In the second volume, The Seer. New York: Eos, 2007, the boy escapes to a sighted city which turns out to be another dystopia. At the end of the novel he returns to his first community but with a sense of a better possibility. In the third volume, Otherspace. New York: Eos, 2008, the protagonist searches for, and finds, a planet where those who were blind but can now see will be safe.

PB - Eos CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Word for Heathens” Y1 - 2004 A1 - Peter [Francis] Watts (b. 1958) ED - Julie E. Czerneda ED - Isaac Szpindel KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Religious dystopia.

JF - ReVision PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Beyond the Rift (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2013), 83-98.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Xen: Ancient English Edition Complete & Unexpurgated Y1 - 2004 A1 - D. J. Solomon Trans. [Written by] KW - US author AB -

Detailed flawed utopia. Much satire. Homo sapiens (man the wise) evolves into Femina persapiens (woman the wiser). There is a Lexicon defining abbreviations and some of the language used.

PB - Avar Press CY - [Whiteville, NC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zoo Force: Bean and Nothingness Y1 - 2004 A1 - John Ira Thomas A1 - Jeremy Smith KW - Male author AB -

The middle volume of a trilogy about an odd group of animal and human superheroes. This volume is a satire on Christian fundamentalism. The other volumes, which are not utopian, are Zoo Force: [Dear Eniko]. [Iowa City, IA]: Candle Light Press, 2003 and Zoo Force: BBQ. [Iowa City, IA]: Candle Light Press, 2007. All volumes also include "Not Zoo Force".

PB - Candle Light Press CY - [Iowa City, IA] U2 -

Illus. Jeremy Smith

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Goorg-Chee: A Sci-Fi Quest for Freedom Y1 - 2003 A1 - C. G. Sherrow KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel is taken up with the gradual meeting of aliens from various civilizations, but it ends with suggestions for bringing about cooperation among the various civilizations.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln, NB ER - TY - ABST T1 - "I Feed the Machine" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Del Stone Jr. ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which love is forbidden and homosexual love is "an abomination".

JF - Living without a Net PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jon" Y1 - 2003 A1 - George Saunders (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which most children are raised in a controlled environment where they help develop products contrasted with an outside world in which people are free to live in families but have more difficult lives.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 78.44 N1 -

Rpt. in Science Fiction: The Best of 2003. Ed. Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan (New York: iBooks, 2004), 149-83; and in his In Persuasion Nation. Stories (New York: Riverhead Books, 2006), 23-61.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Maul Y1 - 2003 A1 - Tricia Sullivan (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Violent dystopia.

PB - Orbit CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Milan Y1 - 2003 A1 - Nick Sturley (b. 1967) KW - Deaf author KW - English author KW - US author AB -

In 2030, with signing a recognized language, a deaf teacher of history in the London Model Deaf School, is teaching his last class before retirement. In it he tells a story about the struggle against oralism, an attempt to impose oralism, the requirement that the deaf speak and cannot sign. In the novel, the story is fantasy and science fiction, but it was inspired by the Second International Congress on the Education of the Deaf held in Milan in 1880 that concluded that speech rather than signing was the best approach to deaf education. The delegates from Great Britain and the United States voted against the resolutions. There was only one deaf delegate to the conference. Signing was banned in many schools for the deaf and deaf teachers lost their jobs. Some schools chose to keep signing, and, of course, many deaf students continued to sign among themselves. The novel ends with the suggest that attempts to impose oralism will continue. There is a “Visual Glossary” illus. Adam Hoy on 212-33 of “Key Characters” (214-21) and Architectural Features (223-33).

PB - Trafford CY - Victoria, BC, Canada SN - 9781412013505 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Runaways" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Anthropological science fiction describing a multi-generational extended family (both related and not related) that originated as runaways and now exists in the interstices of a collapsed, dystopian world. The runaway society has eutopian elements to it.

JF - Agog! Terrific Tales: New Australian Speculative Fiction PB - Agog! Press CY - Wollongong, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in her A Tour Guide in Utopia (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 213-33; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 415-33.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Singularity Sky Y1 - 2003 A1 - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. A colony in space that had rejected modern technology is forcibly reintroduced to technology. A non-utopian sequel is Iron Sunrise. New York: Ace Books, 2004.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Stanley Cup Caper" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Robert J[ames] Sawyer (b. 1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A future Toronto that exists in a divided Canada. High technology with heavy pollution. All North American cities are surrounded by huge security fences.

JF - The Toronto Star N1 -

Rpt. in his Identity Theft and Other Stories (Calgary, AL, Canada: Red Deer Press, 2008), 127-30.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Sunburnt Country Y1 - 2003 A1 - Andrew Sullivan (b. 1968) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future Australia following an ecological catastrophe in which there is no rain for over thirty years. Australia disintegrates into city states, and Melbourne becomes an authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Ginninderra Press CY - Charnwood, ACT, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Twenty-First Century. A Novel Y1 - 2003 A1 - Bruce Schwartz KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A terrorist attack leads to a new civil war in the US based on class and race. A central theme is the establishment of HOPE (With Housing and Opportunity comes Peace and Prosperity) Cities that were transforming the US ghettos into areas of opportunity; it was these twelve cities that were destroyed in the terrorist attack.

PB - Park Avenue Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Big Brother Iron" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Sequel to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in which modern technology is used to successfully revolt.

JF - Toast and other rusted futures PB - Cosmos Books CY - Holicong, PA ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Andy [Andrew Robert] Duncan (b. 1964) ED - Peter Straub KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Story based on the song "The Big Rock Candy Mountains" apparently written by Harry K. McClintock (Haywire Mac) around 1905 based on earlier oral sources. The song is generally identified with the depression of the 1930s when it became popular. The story uses the basic motif of the song of a hobos paradise contrasted to the world outside.

JF - The New Wave Fabulists PB - Bard College CY - Annandale-on-Hudson, NY VL - Volume 39 of Conjunctions N1 -

Rpt. in his The Pottawatomie Ghost and Other Stories (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2012), 41-62, with an author's story note on 309-10; and in his An Agent of Utopia: New & Selected Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018), 141-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Burning Bombing of America" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Kathy [Karen Lehmann] Acker (1948-97) ED - Amy Scholder KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with America destroyed.

JF - Rip-off Red, Girl Detective and The Burning Bombing of America: The Destruction of the U.S. PB - Grove Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Coyote: A Novel of Interstellar Exploration Y1 - 2002 A1 - Allen M[ulherin] Steele [Jr.] (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins on an authoritarian dystopia on Earth and ends with a group of libertarian rebels settling a new planet. See also 2004 and 2005 Steele. His Spindrift. New York: Ace Books, 2007. U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2007 is a first contact novel that uses the setting of the Coyote novels, and his Galaxy Blues. New York: Ace Books, 2008 is set in the same universe. Three novels that relate to and continue aspects of Coyote history are Coyote Horizon: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2009; part originally published as “Walking Star.” Forbidden Planets. Ed. Marvin Kaye (New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2006), 49-98; Coyote Destiny: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2010; and Hex. New York: Ace Books, 2011. A related story is “Tagging Bruno.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 41 1 & 2 (492 & 493) (January-February 2017): 28-47. 

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Originally published in different versions as "Stealing Alabama." Asimov's Science Fiction 25.1 (300) (January 2001): 86-130; "The Days Between." Asimov's Science Fiction 25.3 (302) (March 2001): 14-34; "Coming to Coyote." Asimov's Science Fiction 25.7 (306) (July 2001): 92-135; Liberty Journals." Asimov's Science Fiction 25,10 & 11 (309 & 310) (October/November 2001): 128-42; "The Boid Hunt." Star Colonies. Ed. Martin Greenberg and John Helfers (New York: DAW Books, 2000), 70-94; "Across the Eastern Divide." Asimov's Science Fiction (February 2002); "Lonesome and a Long Way Home." Asimov's Science Fiction 26.6 (317) (June 2002): 76-96; and "Glorious Destiny." Asimov's Science Fiction 26.12 (323) (December 2002): 92-131. Copyright page notes that this story is completely unaltered.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Ararat Y1 - 2002 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A continuation of his future history series; see 1998 Stableford, the note there, and 1999, 2000, and 2002 Stableford, The Omega Expedition. This volume is about the settlement of a colony planet.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dystopianist, Thinking of His Rival, Is Interrupted by a Knock on the Door" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964) ED - Peter Straub KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on utopias and dystopias.

JF - The New Wave Fabulists PB - Bard College CY - Annandale-on-Hudson, NY VL - Volume 39 of Conjunctions U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Holy Terror" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Simon Sheppard ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian erotica. After a cure for AIDS is found, the Christian right decide that gays must be controlled. Women are used for breeding and men as slave labor and for sex.

JF - Wired Hard 3: Erotica for a Gay Universe PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hominids Y1 - 2002 A1 - Robert J[ames] Sawyer (b. 1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Depicts a Neanderthal eutopia in a world where they became the dominant species. First volume of a trilogy; followed by Humans. New York: Tor, 2003 and Hybrids. New York: Tor, 2003.

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Invisible Empire" Y1 - 2002 A1 - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) ED - Peter Straub KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which an organization of women kill men who abuse women.

JF - The New Wave Fabulists PB - Bard College CY - Annandale-on-Hudson, NY VL - Volume 39 of Conjunctions U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lapsit Chronicles Y1 - 2002 A1 - Edith Shaw KW - Female author AB -

Environmental dystopia.

PB - Dealan-dé Publishing CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Millennial Dream Y1 - 2002 A1 - [Paul] [Premsagar] KW - Male author AB -

Series of eutopias and dystopias after death and on planets both more and less advanced than Earth.

PB - 1st Books CY - Bloomington, IN U3 -

Arthur Spintale [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Flamboyant Grandson" Y1 - 2002 A1 - George Saunders (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate controlled, required consumption dystopia.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 77.45 N1 -

Rpt. in his In Persuasion Nation. Stories (New York: Riverhead Books, 2006), 13-22.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Omega Expedition Y1 - 2002 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of the setting and issues of 1998 Stableford. See 1998 Stableford, the note there, and 1999, 2000, and 2002 Stableford, Dark Ararat. This volume is a sequel to 2000 Stableford and is about the life of the man who developed the technology that made immensely long life possible.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Y1 - 2002 A1 - Tina Shaw (b. 1961) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Flawed utopia of corporate control. The novel is set in a resort for the rich called Paradise in which everything controlled to ensure their pleasure. The resort has both metaphorical and real snakes.

PB - Penguin Books (NZ) CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Peshawar Lancers Y1 - 2002 A1 - S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history novel in which Europe has been destroyed by a meteor shower in 1878 and in 2025 Delhi is the center of the Angrezi Raj (formerly the British Empire). His “Shikiri in Galveston.” Worlds That Weren’t. New York: ROC/New American Library, 2005 is set a bit earlier in the same future.

PB - ROC/New American Library/Penguin Putnam CY - Mew York SN - 0-451-45848-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The American Zone Y1 - 2001 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) ED - James Frenkel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A sequel to 1980 Smith, The Probability Broach, in which refugees from various authoritarian versions of the United States arrive in the Confederacy. Last in the North American Confederacy series, preceded, in publication order, by The Probability Broach (1980); The Venus Belt (1981); Their Majesties' Bucketeers. Illus. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. 182 pp.; The Nagasaki Vector. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. 242 pp., neither of which have much to do with the main themes in the series; Tom Paine Maru. New York: Ballantine. 273 pp. Rpt. rev. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 222 pp. [An author’s note says that the first edition was badly cut by the publisher and that this version reflects his original intent]; The Gallatin Divergence. New York: Ballantine, 1985. 223 pp.; Brightsuit MacBear. New York: Avon, 1988. 212 pp.; and Taflak Lysandra. New York: Avon, 1988. 230 pp. (1989), in all three of which there are clashes between the Confederacy and the authoritarian Federalists. In the chronology of the series, the volumes are The Probability Broach, The Nagasaki Vector, The American Zone, The Venus Belt, The Gallatin Divergence, Tom Paine Maru, Brightsuit MacBear, Taflak Lysandra, and Their Majesties' Bucketeers.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blackrose Avenue Y1 - 2001 A1 - Mark [Robert Marky] Shepherd (1961-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the religious right in power and the fight against it.

PB - Yard Dog Press CY - Alma, AR N1 -

2nd ed. Alma, AR: Yard Dog Press, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Child of Venus Y1 - 2001 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The third volume of the series that includes her 1986 and 1988 Sargent. This volume focuses on a genetically engineered woman who has to deal with the conflicts of Venus while she and others begin to explore the galaxy. See also 2000 Sargent.

PB - Eos CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Heaven Study and Lounge Book of Utopia Y1 - 2001 A1 - David Seedhouse KW - Male author AB -

A letter from the author accompanying the disk describes it as a eutopia, but the British Library does not have a program that will open the disk.

PB - [Author] CY - [UK] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kingdom of Darkness: An Investigation into the Systematic Erosion of the Human Spirit Y1 - 2001 A1 - Michael Salt KW - Male author AB -

Near future dystopia brought about by Thatcherite [Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) UK Prime Minister 1979-90)] policies.

PB - Book Guild CY - Lewes, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perdita Y1 - 2001 A1 - Arwen Spicer (b. 1975) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Strongly pro- and anti-technology forces on a eutopian planet. Includes a list of the principal characters by group [(iv)], rules for the pronunciation of the languages of the planet ([v]), and a map of the planet ([vi]). 

PB - Wooded Hill Press CY - Glen Ellen, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Vile Village Y1 - 2001 A1 - [Daniel] [Handler] (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian children's book. Volume 7 of A Series of Unfortunate Events. The vile village is the rule-ridden V.F.D. (The Village of Fowl Devotees), which abducts some children (on the principle that "it takes a village to raise a child") and then requires the children to do all of the work of the village.

PB - HarperCollins CY - New York U3 -

Lemony Snicket [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When the World is All on Fire” Y1 - 2001 A1 - William Sanders (1942-2017) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Dystopia of conflict between whites and Indians during a period of a rapidly growing white population and an environmental collapse. 

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 25.10 & 11 (309 & 310) N1 -

Rpt. in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 149-70, with an editor’s note on 149-51, 247.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dream of Venus Y1 - 2000 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) ED - John Helfers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in the same universe as 1986, 1988, and 2001 Sargent, but earlier than those novels, and focuses the development of a representation of Venus and the personalities and politics involved. 

JF - Star Colonies PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her The Mountain Cage and Other Stories (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2002), 325-57 with "Afterword to 'Dream of Venus'" on 358-59.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exterminance Cometh Y1 - 2000 A1 - Robert Segarra KW - Male author AB -

After a meteor strikes the Earth, an authoritarian world government is formed but resistance develops in the name of a eutopia of freedom.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Floodland Y1 - 2000 A1 - Marcus Sedgwick (b. 1968) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Children's book about the degradation of the environment that leads to widespread flooding. A girl trying to find her parents comes across a 1954 Golding Lord of the Flies type dystopia.

PB - Dolphin CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Dell Yearling, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Forge of the Elders Y1 - 2000 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard libertarian analysis of dystopian collectivism and eutopian capitalism.

PB - Baen CY - Riverdale, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fountains of Youth Y1 - 2000 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A continuation of his future history series; see 1998, 1999 and 2002 Stableford (2). This volume describes the life of a man who is five hundred years old, could live much longer, and is an historian of that generally obsolete phenomenon called death.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Part originally published as "Mortimer Gray's History of Death." Asimov's Science Fiction 19.4 & 5 (229-30) (April 1995): 254-305.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heart of Gold Y1 - 2000 A1 - Sharon Shinn (b. 1957) KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia focusing on gender and racial relations.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea” Y1 - 2000 A1 - Cherrie L[awrence] Moraga (b. 1952) ED - María Teresa Marrero ED - Caridad Svich KW - Chicana author AB -

Alternative history projected into the twenty-first century. In this future, the U.S. has broken up into a number of small nations, many of which were based on ethnicity, including the Mechicano Nation of Aztlán, which includes some of the northern states of the former México. The new states are initially eutopia but after a second revolution become dystopian with all the traditional hierarchies. 

JF - Out of the Fringe: Latino/a Theater and Performance PB - Theater Communications CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her The Hungry Woman (Albuquerque, NM: West End Press, 2001), 1-99, with a “Foreword Hungry for God” by the author (vii-x).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pastoralia" Y1 - 2000 A1 - George Saunders (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which people live in a cave in a zoo pretending to be early humans, which is considered a good job in what is obviously a poverty-stricken future.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 76.6 N1 -

Rpt. in his Pastoralia (New York: Riverhead Books, 2000), 1-66.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Separation Anxiety" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Evie Shockley (b. 1965) ED - Sheree R[enée] Thomas (b. 1972) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Racial and ethnic communities in the U.S. are separated with the intent to allow each to develop. The story presents both positive and negative effects.

JF - Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora PB - Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Utopia Reader. 2nd ed. Ed. Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (New York: New York University Press, 2017),  509-524.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Soulsaver Y1 - 2000 A1 - James Stevens-Arce (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - Puerto Rican author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia.

PB - Harcourt CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Utopian Y1 - 2000 A1 - D[ennis] Samarand KW - Male author AB -

New Age eutopia.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year of the Lemming Y1 - 2000 A1 - Robert Smart KW - Male author AB -

Violent, male-dominated dystopia.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Architects of Emortality Y1 - 1999 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of the setting and issues of 1998 Stableford. In this volume people generally live three hundred years and some live much longer. Includes characters named Holmes and Watson, who are policemen, and an amateur detective called Oscar Wilde.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Part originally published as "Les Fleurs du Mal." Asimov's Science Fiction 18.11 (221) (October 1994): 104-61. Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), 627-89.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Climb the Wind: A Novel of Another America Y1 - 1999 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history in which the American Indians fought back at the end of the Civil War and won.

PB - HarperPrism CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Downsiders. A Novel Y1 - 1999 A1 - Neal Shusterman (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel in which there is an entirely separate society beneath the streets with the focus on a relationship between a girl from above and a boy from below.

PB - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fence Y1 - 1999 A1 - Anne [N.] Steinberg KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with fantasy elements that reflects an attempt to reestablish National Socialism.

PB - Citron Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gardens in the Dunes Y1 - 1999 A1 - Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

Eutopia. In the beginning and at the end of the novel, the "gardens in the dunes" are presented as reflecting a Native American Indian eutopia. The rest of the novel is concerned, among other things, with the dystopia created for Native Americans by U.S. policies toward them.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Debate: The Need for Constitutional Reform Y1 - 1999 A1 - Rodney D. Scott KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction critique of the U.S. constitutional system but includes a proposed new constitution (277-305) and a defense of it. The proposed constitution is similar to the parliamentary system in that the executive is a prime minister within the legislature.

PB - Rampant Lion Press CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Greenhouse Summer Y1 - 1999 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia.

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Name of God Y1 - 1999 A1 - Scott Smith KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Fundamentalist minister becomes President of the United States. Science is made illegal. All clones killed. Gays killed or deported. Government control of all aspects of life through the Christian Police Force. Successful revolution.

PB - Buy Books on the web.com CY - Bryn Mawr, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Old Music and the Slave Women" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A fifth novella to add to her 1995 Four Ways to Forgiveness. This story is mostly about the continuing struggle for control of the planet Werel.

JF - Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction PB - Avon Eos CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 153-211. U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2002), 153-211; in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 429-87; and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume Two. The World for Word Is Forest Stories Five Ways to Forgiveness The Telling. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 518-69 with a “Note on the Text” (781) and “Notes (787). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Phallicide Y1 - 1999 A1 - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a polygamous religious sect that does not practice birth control and mates girls at thirteen. 

JF - Science Fiction Age VL - 7.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Seventeenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 383-410 with an editor’s note on 383. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Queen of Erewhon" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Anthropological science fiction with both eutopian and dystopian elements describing a society where a woman takes multiple husbands. Lesbian themes.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 97.3 (577) N1 -

Rpt. in her A Tour Guide in Utopia (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 18-42; in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 391-413; and in The Mammoth Book of SF Stories By Women. Ed. Alex Dally Macfarlane (London: Robinson/Philadelphia, PA: Running Press. 2014), 22-43.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Spew" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of total surveillance in which the information is used in advertising.

JF - WIRED VL - 10.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writings (New York: William Morrow, 2012), 84-102; and in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 170-83.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Trip to the Mall" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Jan Spencer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological eutopia set in a future Eugene, Oregon. In 2013 the U.S. Federal government announced that it had failed to respond to environmental changes, that it no longer had the resources to do so, and indicated that all it could deal with was defense and communications with everything else devolved to the states. The eutopia is set ten years later. US now stands for Untied States. See the author’s “Green and Resilient Neighborhoods: Portland, Oregon and Beyond.” COMMUNITIES: Life in Cooperative Culture, No. 177 (Winter 2017): 49-54; “From Five Earths to One.” COMMUNITIES: Life in Cooperative Culture. No. 187 (Summer 2020): 25-28; “From Five Earths to One: Implementing the Change.” COMMUNITIES: Life in Cooperative Culture, No. 188 (Fall 2020): 20-29; “From Five Earths to One, Part Three: Transforming Our Economy.” COMMUNITIES: Life in Cooperative Culture, No. 189 (Winter 2020): 59-62; and his website https://www.suburbanpermaculture.org/

JF - Talking Leaves VL - 8.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dark Water" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Danel Spragg ED - P[eter] G. R. Hamilton KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Science fiction story that begins on the Utopia Habitat, a huge Dyson Sphere that is a technological eutopia. Most of the story is an adventure tale that takes place on a space ship.

JF - Millennium Nights PB - Campus Press CY - Palmerston North, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Distraction Y1 - 1998 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Political novel set in a future United States that is disintegrating as a result of various environmental and other problems.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dream" Y1 - 1998 A1 - John Seymour KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Set on the Aran Islands, which have become dependent on tourists and government handouts. Proposal, originating in a dream showing the life being sucked out of the islands, that they return to the eutopian self-sufficiency (described at the beginning of the story). Specifically, re-establish dairying, fishing, gardening, and other farming and wool-production, work toward energy self-sufficiency through wind power, and get rid of cars.

JF - The Aisling Quarterly (Aran Islands, Ireland) VL - 23 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fantasy Machine Y1 - 1998 A1 - Andrew Sewell-Crooke KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation, authoritarian dystopia. Virtual reality and drugs can create any world for a person. All services on a fee for service basis. Global warming, so England is sub-tropical.

PB - Falcon CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Inherit the Earth Y1 - 1998 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Background to a complex adventure is a society the people call the New Utopia. A post-catastrophe society which has extended life spans significantly and in which most people are fairly well off, but in which there is still poverty and life-extension is expensive. See also 1999, 2000, and 2002 Stableford (2). 

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

A different, shorter version originally published as "Inherit the Earth" Analog Science Fiction and Fact 115.8 & 9 (July 1995): 122-75.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Mulatto Millennium” Y1 - 1998 A1 - Danzy Senna ED - Claudine Chiawei O'Hearn KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on racial identity and politics in the United States where suddenly being mixed race is the only acceptable identity.

JF - Half and Half: Writers on Growing up Biracial and Bicultural PB - Pantheon Books CY - New York SN - 0375400311 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The 0's Y1 - 1997 A1 - Jekyll R. Salmon KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian future set in 2007 (thus the 0’s). Liberalism has produced a diminished U. S. The first woman President is elected by conservatives and plans reform through persuasion. After a massacre of school children, the equivalent of the National Rifle Association comes out in support of stringent regulations of guns. Stress on the election campaign and sex. 

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "On the Edge" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Keith Scott ED - Mark Shainblum ED - John Dupuis KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Deep divisions and violence in an alternate Canada as a result of the independence of Québec.

JF - Arrowdreams: An Anthology of Alternate Canadas PB - Nuage Editions CY - Winnipeg, MB, Canada ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hand You're Dealt" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Robert J[ames] Sawyer (b. 1960) ED - Brad[ford Swain] Linaweaver (1952-2019) ED - Edward E Kramer KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Libertarian eutopia with problems.

JF - Free Space PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Like the Gentle Rain" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which science appears to dominate everything with human considerations considered irrelevant. In fact, extremely wealthy humans control the robotic scientists in order to make even more money. An author’s note on 167 says that the story “was presented at an academic conference on J.D. Bernal’s essay ‘The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Inquiry into the future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul’.”

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 93.4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Prologue: A Glimpse of Things to Come” and “Epilogue: Human Destiny?” Y1 - 1997 A1 - Lee M. Silver (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An imaginative projection into the future of genetic engineering, with, in the “Prologue,” stops in 2010, 2050, and 2350, and, in the “Epilogue,” in 2350, 2997, and the far future designated as ???? Projects a deep division between the “Naturals” and the “GenRich” or genetically enriched with, ultimately, divisions within the human species and the development of what later came to be called the Posthuman. Due to the division into Natural and Gen-Rich, by 2350 ethnic and racial differences are no longer important. Within the Gen-Rich, significant subtypes have emerged, with fundamental differences among, for example, athletes, scientists, businessmen, musicians, artists. “and even GenRich intellectual generalists” (5). Natural children are only taught basic skills to fit them for low-paid service jobs. Natural and GenRich come to live segregated lives and are biologically separate species. Later GenRich reshape themselves to fit the environments on different planets and finally evolve into what is now called Posthumans.

JF - In his Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World PB - Avon Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Thermometers Melting" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Glenn Grant ED - Mark Shainblum ED - John Dupuis KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Extracts from an alternative history novel and the report on it by the Canadian “Literary Hygiene Committee,” which censors books and, in this case, says that the author should be in a Work Centre for Political Correction.”

JF - Arrowdreams: An Anthology of Alternate Canadas PB - Nuage Editions CY - Winnipeg, MB, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in his Burning Days (Montréal, QC, Canada: Nanopress, 2011), 60-76. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Undesirables Y1 - 1997 A1 - Mary C. Smith (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An apparent eutopia (no war, no gender or racial discrimination) is in fact an authoritarian dystopia. The bureaucracy manipulates the apparent direct democracy, mates people to produce the “right” offspring, and uses drugs as a means of social control. Those who don’t fit in are brainwashed or sterilized. The novel focuses on the struggle to reform it. 

PB - Black Heron Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bicycle Repairman" Y1 - 1996 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) ED - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) ED - Mark L. Van Name ED - Richard Butner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2037. The background to the story is the NAFTA Government, a new country that has abolished the U.S. Constitution. The story focuses on an independent bicycle repairman working in a shop in part of a building that was burned out in a riot in an area where people are leading independent lives free from the authoritarian system that surrounds them. The ending suggests that the area will regenerate, and the rich will move back.

JF - Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Asimov’s Science Fiction 20.10&11 (250-51) (October/November 1996): 156-85; in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), 254-78; in Isaac Asimov’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 234-78 without the added material and with a note on 234-35; in his A Good Old-Fashioned Future. Stories New York: Bantam Books, 1999, 188-228; U.K. ed. as A Good Old-Fashioned Future (London: Gollancz, 2001), 188-228; and in Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. James P. Kelley and John Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 3-35; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 790-807 with an editor’s note on 790. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Designated Mourner Y1 - 1996 A1 - William Shawn (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in the near future with a regime supressing all dissent. Play directed by David Hare (b. 1947) first performed at the Royal National Theatre in London April 18, 1996.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996.

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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 - Holy Fire Y1 - 1996 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex future world based on ability to extend life. Gerontocrats rule.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Millennium, 1999.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Message From Yon Y1 - 1996 A1 - Dr. P[eter] Schenkel KW - Male author AB -

A higher civilization contacts Earth (known to them as Barbaria) to assist it to overcome its problems. The focus of the book is on Earth's problems, but the planet Yon, with its global democracy, egalitarian economy, and developed culture provides the eutopian contrast.

PB - Minerva Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Missing Time" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Allen M[ulherin] Steele [Jr.] (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative eutopian and dystopian futures for Worcester, Massachusetts based on current policies. The first is based on reduced investment and produces a violent dystopia. The second is based on innovative, environmentally friendly investment and produces a vibrant eutopian future. The third continues current policies and produces a mildly dystopian run-down future.

JF - Worcester Magazine N1 -

Rpt. in his American Beauty (Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2003), 106-20.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Silicon Embrace Y1 - 1996 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Various dystopias in a post-catastrophe future in which the United States has broken up into warring factions.

PB - Mark V. Ziesing Books CY - Shingletown, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Spares Y1 - 1996 A1 - Michael [Philip] Marshall Smith (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopian thriller about people bred as "spares."

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1997.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Age of Innocence" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. With longevity greatly increased, the old become infantile and must be cared for by the young.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 19.7 (232) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Angel Thing" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Petrina Smith ED - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) ED - Judith Raphael Buckrich KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Religious dystopia. The story depicts a fundamentalist church controlled by a charismatic leader. Women considered inferior. When there is an attempt to kill an angel, one woman and her daughter revolt to save it.

JF - She's Fantastical PB - Sybylla CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 420-33.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Balancing" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Ann K. Schwader ED - Gary Bowen KW - Female author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. Every birth requires a death; if no balancing death is provided, a member of the family or the baby must die. Voluntary suicide is common.

JF - Green Echo: Ecological SF& F PB - Obelesk Books CY - Elkton, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bounty: A Novella In Which a Genetically Flawed Hero Flees Through an American Dystopia, Evading Slave Traders and Regaining His Liberty" Y1 - 1995 A1 - George Saunders (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia as reflected in the title.

JF - Harper's Magazine VL - 290.1739 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in his Civilwarland in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella (London: Jonathan Cape, 1996), 88-179.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Buchanan Campaign Y1 - 1995 A1 - Rick Shelley (1947-2001) KW - Male author AB -

Invasion of a colony planet that is presented positively becomes a focus of the conflict between the two major empires. The novel focuses on the conflict.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City of God" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) A1 - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An exploration of the nature of utopianism and the way that the desire for power can corrupt it. Includes both an authoritarian dystopia of grinding poverty and violence and a now deserted eutopia.

JF - Omni Online UR - No longer available on the web N1 -

Rpt. in Asimov's Science Fiction 20.10& 11 (250-51) (October/November 1996): 208-74; and in Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick with Jack [Mayo] Dann, Avram Davidson, and Gardner [Raymond] Dozois. Moon Dogs. Ed. Ann A. Broomhead & Timothy P. Szczesuil (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2000), 155-231.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Diamond Age, or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer Y1 - 1995 A1 - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological Victorian age of the future and some alternatives.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Rem[ment Lucas] Koolhaas (b. 1944) ED - Jennifer Sigler KW - Dutch author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Design for London with both dystopian and eutopian elements.

JF - Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large: Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau PB - The Monacelli Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Horn of Plenty" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Joan Sowter ED - Warwick Bennett ED - Patrick Hudson KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

A man leaves Earth, which is a dystopia of extreme poverty, as a mail-order husband of a woman on a newly opened planet. Both misrepresented themselves, but the story implies that with hard work and adaptability they will be able to create a better life together.

JF - Rutherford's Dreams: A New Zealand Science Fiction Collection PB - IPL Books CY - Wellington U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Other Nature Y1 - 1995 A1 - Stephanie A[nn] Smith (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - US author PB - Tor CY - New York SN - 978-0312856380 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Out of Touch" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Immortality and the problems of those not qualifying. The focus of the story of a man who was born to early, but mention is made of people from the Third World and others who were not eligible for the treatment. The immortals live in a high tech eutopia that for most is an enclosed virtual world.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 19.11 (236) N1 -

Rpt. in Isaac Asimov's Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 33-61 with a note on 33-34.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Profiteer. Hostile Takeover # 1 Y1 - 1995 A1 - [Steven A.] [Swiniarski] (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Planet Bakunin (an anarchist society that would be unrecognizable by Mikhail Bakunin 1814-76) fights off control by others. Sequels include his Partisan. Hostile Takeover # 2. By S. Andrew Swann [pseud.].  New York : DAW Books, 1995; and Hostile Takeover #3: Revolutionary. By S. Andrew Swann [pseud.].  New York : DAW Books, 1996.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U3 -

By S. Andrew Swann [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Puzzle, Gentlemanly" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Elizabeth [Edwina] Smither ED - Warwick Bennett ED - Patrick Hudson KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Technological future world that has lost most of its past knowledge and culture. Satire.

JF - Rutherford's Dreams: A New Zealand Science Fiction Collection PB - IPL Books CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revolt of the Naked Y1 - 1995 A1 - D. V. Sadero AB -

Eutopia and dystopia with stress on the erotic content. A country that is entirely male has a sub-class, the Naked, who are used both as guards and for sex. They ultimately revolt.

PB - Badboy CY - New York N1 -

Excerpt as "Revolt of the Naked." A Century of Gay Erotica. Ed. Phil Andros (New York: Masquerade Books, 1998), 377-88.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadow Man Y1 - 1995 A1 - Melissa [Elaine] Scott (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future where most of the human worlds recognize five sexual identities and nine sexual preferences, but on one world individuals must choose to be either a man or a woman. The novel focuses on a person on that planet who chose to be male but is a hermaphrodite.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A System of Lights" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Anna Deavere Smith (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The piece describes what plays should be like in Utopia. 

JF - Theater VL - 26.1 & 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Tour Guide in Utopia" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) ED - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) ED - Judith Raphael Buckrich KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Humor. A woman writing her thesis on Australian women writers of utopias meets one of them traveling into the future and acts as her guide. The utopia published in the past improved substantially on the future the writer visited.

JF - She's Fantastical PB - Sybylla CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in her A Tour Guide in Utopia (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 108-15; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 121-28.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Butterfly Tastes the Darkness" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Robin Wayne Bailey ED - Caro Soles KW - Male author AB -

Erotic story using a future dystopian setting in which AIDS has been used as an excuse to prohibit most sexual activity.

JF - Meltdown! An Anthology of Erotic Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy for Gay Men PB - Masquerade Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Changing the System of Government in the United States From Two Party to Bipartite: Resolve the Question of Capitalism Versus Socialism" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Carl F. Schulder AB -

Short description of a new government.

PB - Typescript ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cold Sleep, Cold Dreams" Y1 - 1994 A1 - [Sean Llewellyn] [Williams] (b. 1967) ED - Peter McNamara ED - Margaret Winch KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of gang violence.

JF - Alien Shores: An Anthology of Australian Science Fiction PB - Aphelion Publications CY - North Adelaide, SA U3 -

E. W. Story [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deersnake Y1 - 1994 A1 - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia with fantasy elements which may be LSD-induced visions.

PB - Hodder Headline CY - Rydalmere, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Boston: The History of a City 1990-2100 Y1 - 1994 A1 - David Alexander Smith (b. 1953) A1 - Sarah [Winthrop] Smith (b. 1937) A1 - Alexander Jablokov (b. 1956) A1 - Geoffrey A[lan] Landis (b. 1955) A1 - Jon Burrowes A1 - Steven [Earl] Popkes (b. 1952) A1 - Resa Nelson (b. 1956) ED - David Alexander Smith ed. (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A shared future history anthology related to Smith's 1993 In the Cube, which was written during the collaboration on this volume. The basic premise is that Boston is sinking and that as it sinks some of it will simply disappear under water and that the remaining sections will struggle for survival and come into conflict with each other. To complicate matters a wide variety of different aliens arrive in Boston and become part of everyday life. One of those aliens is testing humans for admission into the interstellar world. Humanity apparently passes the test and at the end Boston reunites and establishes itself as a separate country. The volume is composed of numerous stories and vignettes, a few previously published, maps of Boston in 1772, 1990, 2014, 2030, 2050, and 2061, and an "Afterword: How It Came to Be" (376-82) by David Smith. The contents are Smith, "'Boston Will Sink, Claims MIT Prof'" (9-10); Sarah [Winthrop] Smith (b. 1947), "Seeing the Edge" (12-29); Alexander Jablokov (b. 1956), "Nomads" (30-52); Geoffrey A[lan] Landis (b. 1955), "Projects" (53-70) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine [the copyright page incorrectly says Analog] 14.6 (157) (June 1990): 104-17; David Smith, "Dying in Hull" (71-87) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 12.11 (136) (November 1988): 62-66, 68-75; and in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), 497-508 with an Editor's note on 496; and in Isaac Asimov's Earth. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 1992), 19-34. Jon Burrowes, "The Elephant-Ass Thing" (89-108); Steven [Earl] Popkes (b. 1952), "The Parade" (109-21); Jablokov, "Seating Arrangement" (122-32); Burrowes, "The Uprising" (133-36); Resa Nelson (b. 1956) and Sarah Smith, "Fennario" (137-52); Landis, "Topology of the Loophole" (153-56); Popkes, "Not for Broadcast" (157-62); David Smith, "When the Phneri Fell" (163-66) rpt. from Figment, no. 1 (October 1989): 23-24; which was rpt. Figment, no. 15 (Fall 1993): 27-28; Popkes and David Smith, "Playing Chess with the Bishop" (168-73); Jablokov, "Letter to the Editor" (174-75); David Smith, "Who Is Venture Capital?" (176-77); Jablokov, "IPOB Dining Hall Procedures," (178-80); Popkes, "So You Want to Meet the Bishop" (181-85); Landis, "Camomile and Crimson; or, The Tale of the Brahmin's Wife" (186-98) originally published as "The Tale of the Brahmin's Wife." Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 110.5 (April 1990): 135-43; Popkes, "The Test" (198-222); Jablokov, "The Place of No Shadows" (223-46) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 14.11& 12 (162& 163) (November 1990): 170-86; Jablokov, "The Lady of Port Moresby Incident" (248-49); Sarah Smith, "Three Boston Artists" (250-66) rpt. from Aboriginal Science Fiction 4.4 (22) (July-August 1990): 2, 59-63 with illus on 3 and 58; Jablokov, "Focal Plane" (267-86); Sarah Smith, "Ye Citizens of Boston" (287-328); Jablokov, "The Adoption" (330-51) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 15.12& 13 (177& 178) (November 1991): 200-15; Jablokov, "WereWhereWear" (352-53); and David Smith, "Sail Away" (354-75).

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Quartet. Earth in the Year 2042: A Four-Part Invention Y1 - 1994 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) A1 - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia but with some hope of improvement. A future world deeply divided between the rich and the poor but with positive change taking place.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Go Down, Moses" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Gillian [Margaret] Rubinstein (b. 1942) ED - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a future world divided between vegetarians and meat eaters with the meat eaters killing any vegetarians who wander into their territory.

JF - The Patternmaker: Nine Science Fiction Stories PB - Omnibus Books CY - Norwood, SA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hard Drive" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Steven A. Bonvissulo ED - Caro Soles KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia about the suppression of homosexuals and the homosexual rebels.

JF - Meltdown! An Anthology of Erotic Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy for Gay Men PB - Masquerade Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heavy Weather Y1 - 1994 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

World depicted after ecological disaster. Various social systems develop to cope with the situation.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hot Sky At Midnight Y1 - 1994 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia concerned with technology and its effects.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Jericho Iteration Y1 - 1994 A1 - Allen [Mulherin] Steele [Jr.] (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Hard SF set in St. Louis after the next great earthquake.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kay and Phil" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) ED - Peter McNamara ED - Margaret Winch KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Katharine [Penelope Cade] Burdekin (1896-1963) visits her dystopia, Swastika Night (1937) with Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) when he was working on The Man in a High Castle (1962).

JF - Alien Shores: An Anthology of Australian Science Fiction PB - Aphelion Publications CY - North Adelaide, SA N1 -

Rpt. in The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women. Ed. A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones (London: Viking, 1995), 533-53; in her A Tour Guide in Utopia (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 116-39; in her Absolute Uncertainty: Short Fiction (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2006), 21-47; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 49-69.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last Resort" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Jain Scott KW - Australian author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. Rich people can choose a eutopian life inside a computer system.

JF - Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 13 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mission in Space Y1 - 1994 A1 - John B. Selby Sr., M.D. (b. 1916) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The brief novel presents two worlds, both of which can be considered flawed utopias with an abrupt shift between the two and an equally abrupt ending. The first, Antiochus, is a high-tech society with no nations, no racial issues due to interbreeding, a carefully maintained ecology. Women deal with public matters, men mostly with the domestic. But everyone is entirely focused on themselves with no interest in others and production declining and lots of accidents and no one cares. The other, Earth in 2379, has all intellectuals on the moon and everyone on the surface of the Earth is focused on their bodies. Gender equality. Solar power. Not really developed.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Uncertain Terms" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Kristy Schubert KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a society based on eugenic selection that kills anyone deemed not to meet their criteria, which includes any opposition to the criteria.

JF - Tomorrow: 20 Visions of the Future PB - Pan Macmillan Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Only Forward Y1 - 1994 A1 - Michael [Philip] Marshall Smith (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Surreal dystopia set in a U.K. that is a sprawl of neighborhoods composing the City, which covers the entire country. Each neighborhood is inhabited by a different group of people. Considerable conflict among the groups. Some are eutopian, some dystopian, and some just very odd. Mostly adventure.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: HarperCollins, 2002. U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 2000; and Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sex Offender Y1 - 1994 A1 - Matthew Stadler (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a man who has had sex with a twelve-year old is put through an extreme form of aversion therapy by the “Criminal and Health Ministry.” He then joins a rebellion against the government.

PB - HarperCollins CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: HarperPerennial, 1995

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trouble and Her Friends Y1 - 1994 A1 - Melissa [Elaine] Scott (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with cyberpunk elements.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Welcome to the World" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Edith Speers (b. 1949) ED - Peter McNamara ED - Margaret Winch KW - Australian author KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of required good health.

JF - Alien Shores: An Anthology of Australian Science Fiction PB - Aphelion Publications CY - North Adelaide, SA ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Where It's Safe" Y1 - 1994 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) ED - Richard T. Chizmar KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of environmental collapse brought about by personal and corporate greed.

JF - The Earth Strikes Back: New Tales of Ecological Horror PB - Mark V. Ziesing Books CY - Shingleton, CA N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle only on the cover (Clarkson, GA: White Wolf Publishing, [1994]), 188-215; and in Shirley’s The Exploded Heart (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 239-59, with an author’s note on 239. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Beyond Y1 - 1993 A1 - José Sigaud M.D. KW - Male author KW - Paraguayan author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia presented through abduction by aliens. The eutopia is a fairly standard world of peace and prosperity that parallels the Earth. Education, health along with getting rid of social classes made achieving the utopia possible. “In our society, we do not strive for accumulation of goods, which is granted to each one of us from birth to the end of our lives. . . . Rather, we strive for excellence” (11).

PB - Dorrance Publishing Co. CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daughter of Elysium Y1 - 1993 A1 - Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Set in same world as her 1986 Door Into Ocean. In this volume the people of Elysium have achieved immortality which brings with it complacency and arrogance and the desire of other peoples to steal their secret.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Defense of the Social Contracts" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Martha [Clare] Soukup (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia in which a system of contracts regulates human interaction. The story illustrates that the system has flaws.

JF - Science Fiction Age VL - 1.6 N1 -

Rpt. in Nebula Awards 30. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1996), 222-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deus X Y1 - 1993 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The setting of the novel is a future Earth so devastated by the results of current environmental policies that human life on Earth is in danger. The novel focuses on the creation of people within an electronic net and the problems this poses for the Catholic Church and its female pope.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Deus X and Other Stories (Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2003), 90-140. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Femala Y1 - 1993 A1 - C. R. Spohrer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-feminist novel depicting the triumph of male dominance. Earth, and the U.S. in particular, is depicted as a dystopia due to feminism. Femala is a planet where women dominate but treat men well although they are drugged.

PB - Dorrance CY - Pittsburgh, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fifth Sacred Thing Y1 - 1993 A1 - [Miriam] [Simos] (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. See her Walking to Mercury. New York: Bantam Books, 1997 for background.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U3 -

Starhawk [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Goodfood" Y1 - 1993 A1 - W[alter] Warren Wagar (1932-2004) ED - Carol Serling KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future (eutopian or dystopian is left to the reader) in which food that is deemed not good for you is illegal, culinary porn (old cookbooks) are kept in locked sections of libraries, and to be married a couple must be tested for serum cholesterol. An underground system of dealers and grillers provide bacon and eggs, hamburgers, and so forth. The F.F.F. or Food Freedom Fighters torch saladerias, bomb Goodfood rallies and fight back in other ways. The Goodfood Bureau of Investigation enforces the laws. 

JF - Journeys to the Twilight Zone PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - How To Save Our Country: A Nonpartisan Vision for Change Y1 - 1993 A1 - Mike [Miklos N.] Szilagyi (b. 1936) KW - Hungarian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Presents a detailed critique of the U.S. in the early 1990s and suggests specific reforms for how to stop the decay. The book is based on the premise that the problems the U.S. faces are based on “the defective value system of our society” (12). 

PB - Pallas Press CY - Tucson, AZ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Cube Y1 - 1993 A1 - David Alexander Smith (b. 1953) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future Boston, Massachusetts dystopia. See also 1994 Smith, ed. Future Boston: The History of a City 1990-2100.

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Initiation of PB 500 Y1 - 1993 A1 - Kyle Stone KW - Male author AB -

Gay male erotic fiction that includes an authoritarian dystopia. The authoritarianism is used primarily for erotic purposes.

PB - Badboy CY - New York N1 -

Parts originally published as "The Ceremony" in Huge (September 1992) and "The Ultimate Test" in Torso.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Local Code: The Constitution of a City at 42° N Latitude Y1 - 1993 A1 - Michael [David] Sorkin (1948-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The presentation of an ideal city through its building code.

PB - Princeton Architectural Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pallas Y1 - 1993 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Having escaped from a prison planet, a man creates a libertarian eutopia on a terraformed asteroid which is contrasted with an authoritarian dystopia. First in a planned four volume series, known as the Ngu Family Saga, with the second volume being Ceres (Published online on his website one chapter each week beginning March 23,2009. There are 45 chapter and an Epilogue). It was then published as a paperback. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. The third volumes, Ares, has not been published. This volume follows the further adventures of main protagonists of Pallas.

PB - Tor CY - New York SN - 9780312097059 0-812-50904-8 9781604504750 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor, 1995. 447 pp.; and Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2011. 324 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Price of Peace" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Joan Sowter ED - Jean Weber KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Officially sanctioned vigilantes who enforce laws by killing the lawbreaker. The case described is of someone making too much noise.

JF - Starsongs Tau Whetu: The 1993 New Zealand Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Pegapus Press CY - Norsewood, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Reunion" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Lawrence Schimel (b. 1971) ED - [Marion Zimmer] [Bradley] (1930-99) AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Towers of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Reverse Angle Y1 - 1993 A1 - G. Sacerdote KW - Peruvian author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

The legalization of drugs produces an immediate positive result, but then the drug cartels fight back killing everyone that gets in their way. Ultimately, they are defeated. 

PB - Dorrance Publishing Co CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Best of Both Worlds" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Lesley [Willis] Choyce (b. 1951) ED - Lorna Toolis ED - Michael Skeet (b. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia focusing on the development of instantaneous human transport and the power that gives to remodel humanity mentally and physically.

JF - Tesseracts PB - Beach Holme CY - Victoria, BC, Canada VL - 4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brother to Dragons Y1 - 1992 A1 - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia. Extreme class differences with a powerful elite. Serious environmental problems.

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Couples" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Eileen [Shirley Monk] Kernaghan (b. 1939) ED - Lorna Toolis ED - Michael Skeet (b. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia which has past a Fetal Rights Bill.

JF - Tesseracts PB - Beach Holme CY - Victoria, BC, Canada VL - 4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Feral City Y1 - 1992 A1 - Rosie [Judy Rosemary] Scott (b. 1948) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Future dystopia of violence and poverty set in Auckland, New Zealand, brought about by government policies that undid the welfare system and turned New Zealand over to government by big business. Thousands of homeless are living in the inner city. Libraries were privatized and then closed. Although one of them is killed, two sisters become the center of a small amount of hope by opening a bookstore in the center of the ruins.

PB - William Heinemann Australia CY - Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: Reed Books, 1992; and Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Minerva, [1993].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Refuge Y1 - 1992 A1 - Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (b. 1947) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The eutopian Shambala (Shangri-la) and the devastated outer world as a dystopia. Loose sequel to the 1991 Scarborough. For the classic eutopian Shangri-la, see 1933 Hilton.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Passion Play Y1 - 1992 A1 - [Michael Sean] [Irwin] (b. 1965) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia in which the pro-life Redemption Presidency rules and encourages vigilantes to kill and the police subcontracts to freelances to arrest criminals, who are executed on television. 

PB - Beach Holme Publishers CY - Victoria, BC, Canada N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1993.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Perfect Match" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Steve Stanton KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a future in which the poor sell body-parts to survive. 

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 4.1 N1 -

Rpt. illus. Jose Beatas. Kasma Magazine (August 2010). https://www.kasmamagazine.com/perfect-match.html.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Remember, the Dead Say" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Jean-Louis Trudel (b. 1967) ED - Lorna Toolis ED - Michael Skeet (b. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The U.S. has fragmented, with the capital of the Free State Alliance in Omaha, Nebraska. The FSA has been successfully invaded by the Franco-Maghrebi Coalition, which controls Eastern Canada and has imposed Sharia (Islamic) law. The opposition comes from net experts from both countries.

JF - Tesseracts PB - Beach Holme CY - Victoria, BC, Canada VL - 4 N1 -

Rpt. in Northern Stars. The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant (New York: Tor, 1994), 102-13. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Return to Isis Y1 - 1992 A1 - Jean Stewart (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist eutopia with lesbian interest. See also 1993, 1995, 2001, and 2004 Stewart.

PB - Rising Tide Press CY - Huntington Station, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - River Rats Y1 - 1992 A1 - Caroline Stevermer (b. 1955) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult, post-apocalyptic dystopia after a nuclear war, in which children who operate a paddle wheeler on the Mississippi River have to deal with another group of children known as the Wild Boys who control a riverside city.

PB - Jane Yolen Books/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Snow Crash Y1 - 1992 A1 - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York SN - 978-0-593-59973-0 N1 -

Slightly revised 30th Anniversary ed. New York: Del Rey/Penguin Random House, 2022.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Throwaways Y1 - 1992 A1 - Ian Strachan (b. 1938) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in the near future and concerns a group of homeless children, who re known as the throwaways.

PB - Methuen CY - London SN - 9780416188820 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Virtuous Reality" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Overpopulated world requiring licenses to have a child. Families tend to be eight to ten parents and one child. Man wants monogamy in a world of multiple partners both serially and living together at the same time. No passion.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 55 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Downriver (Or, The Vessels of Wrath) A Narrative in Twelve Tales Y1 - 1991 A1 - Iain [MacGregor] Sinclair (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia of the East End of London being destroyed under the policies of Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013. Prime Minister 1979-90).

PB - Paladin CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Random House, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Generation of the Dark Heart Y1 - 1991 A1 - Sorel-Cameron, James KW - Male author AB -

Surreal dystopia created through the fantasies of one man. Extremely violent.

PB - Sinclair-Stevenson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hellbound Train Y1 - 1991 A1 - [William] [Sanders] (1942-2017) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Sequel to 1990 [Sanders]. In this novel, some individuals collaborate to defeat a man set on killing all those opposing him. 

PB - Popular Library CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Invisible Country" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) ED - Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of an extreme division between the rich and the poor where gangs run the poor areas and violence is common. A biological agent that makes people caring is spread around the world and the dystopia is being replaced with a better society.

JF - When the Music's Over: A Benefit Anthology PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his The Invisible Country (London: Victor Gollancz, 1996), 13-34, with an "Afterword" on 35.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” Y1 - 1991 A1 - Michael A[ustin] Stackpole (b. 1957) ED - Lawrence Watt-Evans (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a future New York that has outlawed candy.

JF - Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City PB - Roc CY - New York SN - 9780451450456 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Newton's Sleep." Y1 - 1991 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Lou Aronica ED - Amy Stout ED - Betsy Mitchell KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story begins in a very brief dystopia of a future North America with a destroyed environment and constant regional wars. The story then moves to a satellite that is supposed to be a eutopia based on reason, but anti-Semitism and the struggle for power undermine the eutopia while, at the end, imagination seems to be beginning to reshape even the physical layout.

JF - Full Spectrum PB - Doubleday CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. in her A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Science Fiction Stories (New York: HarperPrism, 1994), 23-55. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nothing Sacred Y1 - 1991 A1 - Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (b. 1947) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia with fantasy elements.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "One World, Many Tribes" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

Describes the gathering of the tribes to reclaim the land and includes brief notes on how the world will be healed in the future. More suggestive than detailed.

JF - Almanac of the Dead PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Prince" Y1 - 1991 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) ED - Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of corporate greed, environmental collapse and violence.

JF - When the Music's Over: A Benefit Anthology PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his The Exploded Heart (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 197-223, with an author's note on 197.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Russian Spring Y1 - 1991 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future with a revitalized Russia and Europe and a stagnating United States.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "SEAQ and Destroy." Y1 - 1991 A1 - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) ED - Bruce [Hugh] McAllister (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Humorous satire of a capitalist Cold War with Russian corporations attacking stock markets in London with the U.S. under President Michael Jackson (1958-2009) cooperating with the Russia capitalists to take over Europe.

JF - There Won't Be War PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Walk Through Beirut" Y1 - 1991 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) ED - Lawrence Watt-Evans (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author JF - Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City PB - Roc Books CY - New York SN - 9780451450456 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When the Rose Is Dead." Y1 - 1991 A1 - David [Neil] Zindell (b. 1952) ED - Lou Aronica ED - Amy Stout ED - Betsy Mitchell KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in a war setting. A character is said to be "suffering from an illness the doctors call 'Desire for Utopia'."

JF - Full Spectrum PB - Bantam Books CY - New York VL - 3 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Contact and Commune Y1 - 1990 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alien contact with libertarian themes. 

PB - Popular Library CY - New York U5 -

Merril, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daz 4 Zoe Y1 - 1990 A1 - Robert [Edward] Swindells (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A young adult dystopia in the near future in which society is divided into the affluent and the poor. Two teenagers bridge the gap and leave to find a better life.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Edinburgh, Scot.: Pearson Education, 2000, with analysis and notes.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Difference Engine Y1 - 1990 A1 - William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948) A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history in which the computer age emerges in Britain in the nineteenth century, and, as a result, the British Empire is even stronger than it was in our history. There was no famine in Ireland and, therefore, no Irish Diaspora and no independent Ireland. The United States has fragmented. The 1993 video game Chaos Engine (United States as Soldiers of Fortune.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London SN - 9780575047624 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1991. 20th Anniversary ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 2011.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Embarrassment Box” Y1 - 1990 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in a future where White House II, a replica, in Cody, Wyoming is presided over an incompetent, doddering man who inherited the presidency from his father and grandfather. In this future tobacco illegal but cannabis legal, and there are no wheeled vehicles. The development of “placers,” or instant transportation booths means the people are free to move from place to place and time to time as they choose, thus undermining any government authority. Part of the author’s long series of libertarian eutopias and dystopias.

JF - New Libertarian VL - 4.20 & 5.9&10 (no. 187) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Furniture of Life’s Ambition” Y1 - 1990 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) ED - David [S.] Garnett (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a William Morris of the future who is bound to a company producing fact versions of food but then he establishes a firm to produce high-tech furniture.

JF - Zenith 2: The Best New British Science Fiction PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future X. A Novel Y1 - 1990 A1 - Kent Smith KW - Male author AB -

The focus of the novel is time travel, with a man from the future trying to keep Malcolm X from being assassinated and taking him to the future, which is a violent dystopia similar to the worst of the present, where his leadership is needed.

PB - Holloway House Pub. Co CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

MoU-St.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Inkblot Test" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Rosalind A. Warren ED - Susanna J. Sturgis KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia that uses rigged psychological testing to place people in occupations.

JF - The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction PB - The Crossing Press CY - Freedom, CA VL - 2 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Instinct" Y1 - 1990 A1 - John Schneider KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Milwaukee has been sanitized and domed to be a refuge for the privileged.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Net Songs" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Elaine Bergstrom ED - Susanna J. Sturgis KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Right wing dystopia controlling human relationships through fear of disease.

JF - The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction PB - The Crossing Press CY - Freedom, CA VL - 2 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Orbitsville Judgement Y1 - 1990 A1 - Bob [Robert] Shaw (1931-96) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

A continuation of his 1983 Orbitsville Departure which was a sequel to his 1974 "Orbitsville". In this volume, the artificial world is somehow moved in space, and the world becomes more eutopian. The author was born in Northern Ireland. 

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Picnic Days" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Cleo [Fellers] Kocol (1927-2016) ED - Susanna J. Sturgis KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which the right to drive is considered more important than the safety of pedestrians, and traffic accidents are considered a means of reducing the population. The point of view character is the mother of sixteen living in a two-room apartment.

JF - The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction PB - The Crossing Press CY - Freedom, CA VL - 2 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pockets of Resistance Y1 - 1990 A1 - [William] [Sanders] (1942-2017) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Survivalist dystopia set in a future totalitarian U.S. See also 1991 [Sanders]. Native American Indian (Cherokee) author.

PB - Popular Library CY - New York U3 -

Will Sundown [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Re: Generations" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Mike [Michael Dennis] McQuay (1949-95) ED - Lou Aronica ED - Shawna McCarthy ED - Amy Stout ED - Patrick LoBrutto KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all television is designed to sell products, with both the television stations and the stores owned by the Company. But the system is beginning to fall apart, creating a different dystopia, with shortages of the goods being sold, people developing psychological problems, and mass suicides.

JF - Full Spectrum PB - Bantam Books CY - New York VL - 2 U5 -

MoU-St, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Story of the Planet Candy Y1 - 1990 A1 - Robert Skaf KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Purported eutopia where no one needs to work, feel sad, or wear clothes, and disease, hunger, and poverty have been eliminated. The focus is on the flaws as seen from a conservative perspective. Canadian author born in Lebanon.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bound for Glory" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Lucius [Taylor] Shepard (1943-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in a badlands in the middle of the U.S. Some fantasy.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 77.4 (461) ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cascade Empire Y1 - 1989 A1 - E[sther] M[arian] G[reenwell] Smith KW - Female author AB -

Attempt to create an eutopia by rebuilding after a catastrophe.

PB - Ashley Books CY - Port Washington, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Glimpses Y1 - 1989 A1 - Laurence [Frederick] Staig (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

A young adult dystopia in which a fascist political party gains power through violence. A second theme is genetic manipulation, which produces a group of super children.

PB - Macmillan Children's Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Harmonogmia 'of an integrated nature'" Y1 - 1989 A1 - William Glover A1 - Hedde Gräfje A1 - Steven Rising A1 - Shingo Suekane A1 - Mark Wettstone ED - Catherine Briggs ED - Thomas Veith KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Descriptions and sketches for a eutopia produced for an urban design class.

JF - Cloverleaf in the Grid PB - College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Washington CY - Seattle ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Human Shore" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A future society in which gender differentiation is unknown.

JF - Futures VL - 21.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Itu's Sixth Winter Festival (Excerpts from Daughters of Gelasia)" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Shirley Hartwell ED - Susanna J. Sturgis KW - Female author AB -

Feminist eutopia describing a women-only community.

JF - Memories and Visions: Women's Fantasy & Science Fiction PB - The Crossing Press CY - Freedom, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jane Saint and the Backlash: The Further Travails of Jane Saint" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 1980 Saxton in which men are again dominant.

JF - The Consciousness Machine. Jane Saint and the Backlash: The Further Adventures of Jane Saint PB - The Women's Press CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nuclear War Diary Y1 - 1989 A1 - James E. Stanford Jr. ED - Frank Alexander KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The diary of a teenager for the first year after a nuclear war.

PB - Front Row Experience CY - Byron, CA SN - 0-915236-28-2 U2 -

Illus. by the author

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Outlander: Captivity Y1 - 1989 A1 - B. J. Salterberg KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel with Amazonian warriors and domesticated males versus a society of male chauvinists. Both groups must change to survive. Female author.

PB - Harbinger House CY - Tucson, AZ U5 -

MoS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Scapeweed Goat Y1 - 1989 A1 - Frank Schaefer KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian religious cult set in the past.

PB - Poseidon Press CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989. Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1991.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Six Kinds of Darkness." Y1 - 1989 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) ED - Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946) ED - Peter Lamborn Wilson ED - Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Violent dystopia.

JF - Semiotext[e] SF PB - Autonomedia CY - Brooklyn, NY U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Spirit of Exmas Sideways" Y1 - 1989 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) ED - Robert Adams ED - Pamela Crippen Adams KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history libertarian eutopia connected to his 1980 The Probability Broach. The U.S. Constitution was overturned and replaced with a reformed Articles of Confederation, which became the basis of the North American Confederacy in which everyone carries a weapon. Related novels include, in publication order, in addition to The Probability Broach, not all of which are utopian, the series includes The Venus Belt (1980); Their Majesties' Bucketeers. Illus. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. 182 pp.; The Nagasaki Vector. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. 242 pp., neither of which have much to do with the main themes in the series; Tom Paine Maru. New York: Ballantine. 273 pp. Rpt. rev. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 222 pp. [An author’s note says that the first edition was badly cut by the publisher and that this version reflects his original intent]; The Gallatin Divergence. New York: Ballantine, 1985. 223 pp.; Brightsuit MacBear. New York: Avon, 1988. 212 pp.; Taflak Lysandra. New York: Avon, 1988. 230 pp., in all three of which there are clashes between the Confederacy and the authoritarian Federalists; and The American Zone (2001) which is a sequel to The Probability Broach. In the chronology of the series, the volumes are The Probability Broach, The Nagasaki Vector, The American Zone, The Venus Belt, The Gallatin Divergence, Tom Paine Maru, Brightsuit MacBear, Taflak Lysandra, and Their Majesties' Bucketeers.

JF - Alternatives PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Strip-Runner" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of an enclosed world and its limitations on a teenage girl.

JF - Foundation's Friends: Stories in Honor of Isaac Asimov PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wall Around Eden Y1 - 1989 A1 - Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. A small town is isolated by aliens from a nuclear holocaust and re-learns the skills of a simple life. The next generation begins to see this life as too limiting.

PB - Morrow CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Women's Press, 1989.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "We See Things Differently." Y1 - 1989 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) ED - Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946) ED - Peter Lamborn Wilson ED - Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed U.S. and dominant Islamic Middle East, which, in the name of jihad, is killing individuals who might assist U.S. recovery.

JF - Semiotext[e] SF PB - Autonomedia CY - Brooklyn, NY N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991), 130-46 with an editor's note on 129; and in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction. Ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin and Brian Attebery. Karen Joy Fowler, Consultant (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 762-79.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Why Weeps the Brogan? Y1 - 1989 A1 - Hugh Scott KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of children surviving in the British Museum after a nuclear war. Published as a children's book.

PB - Walker Books CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Isaac Asimov Presents Antibodies Y1 - 1988 A1 - David J[ohn] Skal (1952-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of people replacing their bodies with machines a bit at a time.

PB - Congdon & Weed CY - New York U1 -

The title is also given simply as Antibodies, but the full title is on the title page. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Islands in the Net Y1 - 1988 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future high tech, networked eutopia that has access to data tightly controlled is being undermined by those trying to control people through the net. One woman manages to defeat them.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1994 with an unpaged “Introduction” by James E. Gunn, which was rpt. in his Paratexts: Introductions to Science Fiction and Fantasy (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013), 73-76. . U.K. ed. London: Century, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Journals of the Plague Years." Y1 - 1988 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) ED - Lou Aronica ED - Shawna McCarthy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. An AIDS-like pandemic/plague spreads throughout the world and anyone with it is put into a quarantine zone. Written from the point of view of both those with the plague and those fighting it. At the end a virus defeats the plague, and an introductory statement written fron Luna City in 2143 suggests a eutopian outcome.

JF - Full Spectrum PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as Journals of the Plague Years. New York: Bantam Books, 1995.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "La Vie Continue" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future America that tries to co-opt or, if that fails, kill authors who oppose the current regime.

JF - Other Americas PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Marching Through Georgia Y1 - 1988 A1 - S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history in which the losers in the American Revolution establish The Domination based on slavery, initially, in this volume, in Africa but, in Under the Yoke. New York: Tor, 1989, spreading to Asia and continental Europe. In the final volume, The Stone Dogs. New York: Tor, 1990, The Alliance and The Dominion have a final confrontation. 

PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

His Domination. New York: Tor, 1999 is an abridged and revised single volume edition of his Draka series, Marching through Georgia (1988), Under the Yoke (1989), and The Stone Dogs (1990).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Lady Tongue" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) ED - Damien [Francis] Broderick (b. 1944) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A lesbian community as a eutopia in conflict with men. The community is presented as a set of complex interactions among the women within the community, with issues around the degrees of lesbianism. Much of the story is also concerned with a relationship the protagonist had with a man. 

JF - Matilda at the Speed of Light PB - Angus & Robertson CY - North Ryde, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction Vol. 2. Ed. Susanna J. Sturgis (Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1990), 208-55; in her My Lady Tongue and Other Stories (London: Heinemann, 1990/Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: William Heinemann Australia, 1990), 75-133 [London edition has Stories rather than Tales]; in Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF. Ed. Terry [Terence William] Dowling and Van Ikin (Rydalmere, NSW, Australia: Hodder & Stoughton (Australia), 1993), 274-320; in Centaurus: The Best Australian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Damien [Francis] Broderick (New York: Tor, 1999), 150-87; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 71-112.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Venus of Shadows Y1 - 1988 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1986 Sargent. This volume follows the next four generations of the Venus project, the society that is emerging, and the conflicts within it.

PB - Doubleday CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller Y1 - 1988 A1 - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia seen through the eyes of an environmental activist.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Apocalypse 2000: Economic Breakdown and the Suicide of Democracy 1989-2000 Y1 - 1987 A1 - Peter Jay (b. 1937) A1 - Michael [James] Stewart (b. 1933) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian future history showing the effects of poor policy choices made in all the major countries into the collapsing world that they produce. There is an index..

PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Sphere, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Brazil" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Terry Gilliam (b. 1940) A1 - Tom Stoppard (b. 1937) A1 - Charles McKeown (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Screenplay of the famous 1985 dystopian film directed by Terry Gilliam.

JF - The Battle of Brazil PB - Crown CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Kindly Ones Y1 - 1987 A1 - Melissa [Elaine] Scott (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia based on strict rules of behavior based on kinship facing changed conditions where it becomes essential to peacefully settle differences.

PB - Baen Books CY - New York U5 -

WiU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Little Heroes Y1 - 1987 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex novel depicting a future U.S. dystopia. Commercial control; drugs; financial depression. Reality Liberation Front and rock and roll will provide a touch of hope, but they will probably lose out to commercialization.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rain" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Michael Skeet (b. 1955) ED - Phyllis [Fay Bloom] Gotlieb (1926-2009) ED - Douglas Barbour (b. 1940) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Class-based dystopia. The poor living deepest underground.

JF - Tesseracts2 PB - Porcépic Press CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

Can, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revolutionizing Reform Y1 - 1987 A1 - Jerome Shuchter KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction socialist eutopia with suggestions for the period of transition.

PB - Dorrance & Co CY - Bryn Mawr, PA U5 -

WyU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sexual Chemistry" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Developments in biochemistry aimed at sexual prowess result in a vaguely described eutopia.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 20 N1 -

Rpt. as “A Career in Sexual Chemistry.” In his Sexual Chemistry: Sardonic Tales of the Genetic Revolution (London: Simon & Schuster, 1990), 21-41. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - U.S.S.A. Book 3 Y1 - 1987 A1 - S[ondra] C[atharine] Sykes (1943-2005) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1987 De Haven and 1987 Lewitt. See also Lewitt, Book 4. In this volume the protagonist’s father is put in a “reorientation camp”.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vacuum Flowers Y1 - 1987 A1 - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex novel of various worlds--mostly dystopian--based on the ability to program people with different personae. Earth has been taken over by the Comprise--linked minds in many human bodies.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wild Card Run Y1 - 1987 A1 - Sara [Lucinda] Stamey (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which computers are forcing evolutionary changes in humans. Sequels include Win, Lose, Draw. New York: Ace Books, 1988; and Double Blind. New York: Ace Books, 1990. 

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "And He Not Busy Being Born. . . ." Y1 - 1986 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopian/dystopian society of the future. Virtually immortal people remain children physically, know no difficulties. Story is about a man from the past who is revived.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 16 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Captive Planet Y1 - 1986 A1 - Gregory J[on] Smith KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Christian science fiction. Authoritarian dystopia and the battle of good and evil. Good wins.

PB - Bethany House Publishers CY - Minneapolis, MN U5 -

InFwA

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Circuit Y1 - 1986 A1 - Melinda M[arilyn] Snodgrass (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Space law and courts in conflict with political power. The protagonist is a judge of space law who believes that justice rather than political power should determine decisions, which leads to an attempt to impeach him. See also her Circuit Breaker. New York: Berkley Books, 1987, which continues the same theme and the same protagonist with the focus on a conflict between the residents of Mars and a wealthy conglomerate; and Final Circuit. New York: Ace Books, 1988, in which the circuit court on which the protagonist sat has been disbanded, and his impeachment is ordered as war breaks out. 

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

DLC, Merril, MoU-St, PPT

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming of the Prophet Bird Y1 - 1986 A1 - Ted Sheasby (b. 1920) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Catastrophe story with survivors in which those most in touch with nature do best.

PB - Author CY - Cambridge, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, DU-Ho

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Door Into Ocean Y1 - 1986 A1 - Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Complex feminist and ecological eutopia on an ocean planet with no men that practices cooperation and nonviolence in conflict with a male dominated, authoritarian society that wants to take the knowledge that the women have by force and control the planet. Her eutopian Daughter of Elysium (1993) is also part of her Elysium Cycle as are her non-utopia “The Children Star.” Illus. Darryl Elliott in Analog 118. 4 – 7/8 (April – July/August 1998): 10-16, 18-59; 10-54; 58-97; 180-218, 220-222; rpt. without the illus. New York: Tor, 1998; and Brain Plague. New York: Tor, 2000.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York N1 -

Collector's Edition illus. Michael Mariano and with an "Introduction" by Pamela Sargent (v-ix). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Ranger Y1 - 1986 A1 - [Jan] [Stacy] (1948-89) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-nuclear war survivalist dystopia. A single heavily armed man fights against a different evil force in each volume as he single-handedly saves America. At the end of the last volume the Earth is completely destroyed.

PB - Popular Library CY - New York U3 -

Craig Sargent [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nature's End: The Consequences of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1986 A1 - James [William] Kunetka (b. 1944) A1 - [Louis] Whitley Strieber (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia of an overpopulated, polluted world set in 2025.

PB - Grafton Books CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shore of Women Y1 - 1986 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Separate society for each sex. Women control science and technology.

PB - Crown CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Dallas, TX: BenBella Books, 2004.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - To Stand Beneath the Sun Y1 - 1986 A1 - [William] Brad[ley] Strickland (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gender-role reversal dystopia on a planet with no technology. The women rule and are warriors, the men kept married to multiple women. A lone man from Earth rejects being part of such a system and brings about change.

PB - Signet CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St, PTU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia II: An Investigation into the Kingdom of God Y1 - 1986 A1 - John Schmidt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed Christian eutopia centered on the Second Coming of Christ in 3000, who will rule until 4000. Ideal, efficient city and architecture. Gender equality. Technologically advanced. Reincarnation. Said to be “for practical idealists” (2).

PB - Sun Books CY - Sante Fe, NM U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Venus of Dreams Y1 - 1986 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of a trilogy about the Venus Project, a proposal to terraform Venus, which will take generations. The first volume lays out the beginnings of the project and some of the key people involved and suggests some of the problems to come. See also 1988, 2000, and 2001 Sargent.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Collectors' Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1990 illus. Ron Miller and with an "Introduction" (v-vii) by Gregory Benford.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Womonseed: A Vision Y1 - 1986 A1 - Sunlight [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A women-only feminist eutopian community. The novel is told through a “Prologue” (1-7) the stories of sixteen women told at the summer solstice in 1999. After the failure of the U.S. government, local communities gradually became independent. In the pollution-free future, the women tell of their lives before finding the Womonseed community, except for one was born in the community and one who took a journey to the world outside the community, finding both positive experiences with other women and the remains of patriarchy. 

PB - Tough Dove Books CY - Little River, CA N1 -

Parts were originally published as "Prologue to Womonseed." Common Lives/Lesbian Lives, no. 6 (Winter 1982): 10-13 [A somewhat different version and the cover illustration were rpt. in Sinister Wisdom, no. 72 (Winter 2007-2008): 41-46]; "Manzanita's Story." Woman Spirit, no. 35 (Spring 1983): 4-6; "This Language Without Words." Woman Spirit, no. 40 (Summer 1984): 10; and "Firefly." Common Lives/Lesbian Lives, no 17 (Fall 1985): 71-76.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Between the Strokes of Night Y1 - 1985 A1 - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In 2010 the human race on Earth has been killed off in nuclear war and survives only in small colonies in space, but these humans expand further into space. The second part of the novel is set in 27,698 and deals with the colonized planets, particularly Pentecost, which comes into contact with a race of space-faring immortals with a faster than light drive, and much of the novel is hard SF concerned with the technology.

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Child of Fortune Y1 - 1985 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Describes a number of different eutopias as seen through the eyes of a young woman on her wanderjahr, her period of wandering the galaxy, at the end of which each person chooses their "freenom". The novel is set in the same time frame as his non-utopian The Void Captain's Tale. New York: Timescape, 1983.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Darkling Wind Y1 - 1985 A1 - Somtow [Papinian] Sucharitkul (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - Thai author KW - US author AB -

Last volume of a series. This volume sees the defeat of the dystopia. See also 1982, 1983, and 1984 Sucharitkul.

PB - Tiger Eyes Press CY - Lemoyne, PA N1 -

Rpt. as The Darkling Wind: Chronicles of the High Inquest. New York: Bantam Books, 1985.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dogfight" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) A1 - William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Society divided into the employed and unemployed. Drugs. Cyber-based control of individuals.

JF - Omni VL - 7.10 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1986), 51-68 with an editor's note on 50; and in William [Ford] Gibson, Burning Chrome (London: Victor Gollancz, 1986), 150-75. Rpt. (London: Grafton, 1988), 167-94. U.S. ed. (New York: Arbor House, 1987), 150-75; in The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction. Ed. Ellen [Sue] Datlow (New York: Zebra Books, 1989), 85-115; and in The Ultimate Cyberpunk. Ed. Pat Cadigan (New York: ibooks, 2002), 249-75.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eclipse Y1 - 1985 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Neo-fascist dystopia and the revolt against it. Sequels are Eclipse Penumbra. A Song Called Youth—Book Two. New York: Popular Library. Rev. ed. Northridge, CA: Babbage Press, 2000; and Eclipse Corona. A Song Called Youth--Book Three. New York: Popular Library, 1990. Rev. and updated ed. Northridge, CA: Babbage Press, 2000.

PB - Bluejay CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Methuen, 1986. Rev. & updated ed. Northridge, CA: Babbage Press, 1999. Part published as "Freezone." in Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. [Michael] Bruce Sterling (New York: Arbor House, 1986), 138-77; and in The Ultimate Cyberpunk. Ed. Pat Cadigan (New York: ibooks, 2002), 200-48. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Faillandia Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Henry] Francis [Montgomery] Stuart (1902-2000) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia called Failland, which is Ireland. Faillandia is a magazine founded by the protagonist and his friends to fight the government and church. The novel follows the attempts of the government and the military to use the magazine for their own benefit.

PB - Raven Arts Press CY - Dublin, Ireland N1 -

Part originally published as “The Water Garden.” The Cork Review 1.3 (March-April 1980): 22-23; rpt. in Firebird 2: New Writing. Ed. T. J. Binding (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1983), 211-16. Rpt. in his States of Mind: Selected Short Prose 1936-1983 (Dublin: The Raven Arts Press/London: Martin Brien & O'Keeffe, 1984), 95-101.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Future Talk: Or the Visions of Chicken Little. A Story” Y1 - 1985 A1 - Donna L. Smyth KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on capitalism in which products have lives.

JF - Canadian Woman Studies/Les cahiers de la femme VL - 6.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Girls Will Be Girls" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Patricia Shaw-Mathews ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A story about adjusting to life among the Free Amazons. 

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Green Days in Brunei" Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopian future where Brunei has run out of oil.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 9.10 (96) N1 -

Rpt. Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1986), 85-128 with an editor's note on 84; in his in Crystal Express (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1989), 107-54; rpt. (New York: Ace Books, 1990), 113-64; and in The Ultimate Cyberpunk. Ed. Pat Cadigan (New York: ibooks, 2002), 276-340.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Growing Pains" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Susan Schwartz ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A story about a young woman having difficulties adjusting to the ways of the Free Amazons. 

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Incorporated" Y1 - 1985 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 9.7 N1 -

Rpt. in Future Crime: An Anthology of the Shape of Crime to Come. Ed. Cynthia Manson and Charles Ardai (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1992), 11-26; and in his The Exploded Heart (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 155-76, with an author's note on 155.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lipton Village Society" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) ED - Damien [Francis] Broderick (b. 1944) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

This story is tangential to Sussex's utopianism in that it posits a group of young people on the margins of society in the process of willing a utopia into existence, one that they have created collectively in their imaginations. Only brief indications of what the utopia will be like.

JF - Strange Attractors: Original Australian Speculative Fiction PB - Hale & Iremonger CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in her My Lady Tongue and Other Stories (London: Heinemann, 1990/Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: William Heinemann Australia, 1990), 213-36; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 135-50.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lover from Beyond the Dawn of Time" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Begins with a highly organized eutopia,but shifts to a horror story.

JF - The Power of Time PB - Chatto & Windus/Hogarth Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "News from Nowhere, 1984" Y1 - 1985 A1 - B[urrhus] F[rederick] Skinner (1904-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Addition to his 1948 Walden Two in which George Orwell joins the community, and most of the story is in the form of conversations between Frazier, the main character in Walden Two, and Orwell.

JF - The Behavior Analyst VL - 8.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his Upon Further Reflection (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1987), 33-50.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Oath of the Free Amazons: Terra, Techno Period" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Jaida nha Sandra ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

Modification of Free Amazon oath found in 1979 Breen.

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Recruits" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Maureen Shannon ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A story about joining the Free Amazons. 

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Schismatrix Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk that presents two groups of future posthumans, one of which, the Shapers, develop themselves with genetic engineering and the other, the Mechanists, who use cybernetic enhancements. These groups are regularly in conflict and the presentation is essentially dystopian.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace 1986; and in Schismatrix Plus: Includes Schismatrix and Selected Stories from Crystal Express (New York: Ace, 1996), 1-236. Developed from a series of stories, including "Swarm." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 62.4 (April 1982): 4-24; rpt. in his Crystal Express (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1989), 3-26; rpt. (New York: Ace Books, 1990), 3-28; in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 472-95; and in Schismatrix Plus (239-57); "Spider Rose." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 63.2 (375) (August 1982): 4-19; rpt. in his Crystal Express (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1989), 27-44; rpt. (New York: Ace Books, 1990), 29-46; and in Schismatrix Plus (258-71); "Cicada Queen." Universe 13. Ed. Terry Carr. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1985), 145-81; rpt. in his Crystal Express (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1989), 45-79; rpt. (New York: Ace Books, 1990), 47-84; and in Schismatrix Plus (272-300); "Sunken Gardens." Omni 6.9 (June 1984): 58-, 62, 64, 67, 136, 138; rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1985), 351-64 with an editor's note on 350; in his Crystal Express (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1989), 80-96; rpt. in (New York: Ace Books, 1990), 85-101;and in Schismatrix Plus (301-12); and "Life in the Mechanist/Shaper Era: 20 Evocations." Interzone, no. 7 (Spring 1984): 24-26; rpt. as "Twenty Evocations." In his Crystal Express (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1989), 97-104; rpt. (New York: Ace Books, 1990), 102-09; as "20 Evocations." Mississippi Review, no. 47/48 (16.2/3) (1988): 122-29; and in Schismatrix Plus (313-19).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Silence in Having Words: Purple" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia that tries to control all aspects of life.

JF - The Power of Time PB - Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Terrarium Y1 - 1985 A1 - Scott Russell Sanders (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two future societies with both good and bad elements.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Third Millennium: A History of the World: AD 2000-3000 Y1 - 1985 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) A1 - David [Rowland] Langford (b. 1953) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

History of the future that reads as a technological eutopia after the period of crisis between 2000 and 2180.

PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2016" Y1 - 1984 A1 - [Henry] Francis [Montgomery] Stuart (1902-2000) KW - Australian author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Consumerist dystopia. Over 100 indistinguishable TV channels. Constant package holidays. Literary production for the masses. Tranquillizers in the water.

JF - States of Mind: Selected Short Prose 1936-1983 PB - The Raven Arts Press/Martin Brien & O’Keeffe CY - Dublin, Ireland/London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brother in the Land Y1 - 1984 A1 - Robert [Edward] Swindells (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A young adult post-nuclear war dystopia designed to demonstrate to the readers that such circumstances will be truly horrifying.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. with an "Afterword" by the author. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1986. U.S. ed. New York: Holiday, 1985.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fears" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) ED - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of extreme male chauvinism in which very few girls are born, and all women are treated as inferior.

JF - Light Years and Dark; Science Fiction and Fantasy Of and For Our Time PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Pamela Sargent. Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg (Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago, 1987), 306-22; in New Eves: Science Fiction About Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 281-90 with an editors’ note on 280; in Women of Wonder, The Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace, 1995), 141-51; in her The Mountain Cage and Other Stories (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2002), 189-201 with an “Afterword to ‘Fears’” (202); in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 277-88, which gives the wrong date of the original publication; and in Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), 299-309. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden People Y1 - 1984 A1 - Fred [Thomas] Saberhagen (1930-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Genetically superior people in conflict with humanity.

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Marianna and the Graduation" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Caroline Forbes (b. 1952) ED - Lilian Mohin ED - Sheila Shulman KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia. Past wars led to the complete loss of memory. In the story a few women, but no men, have begun to remember. Those women, known as the Guardians, educate girls and are always on the lookout for others with memories. The story is about one girl who begins to remember.

JF - The Reach and other stories; lesbian feminist fiction PB - Onlywomen Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in her The Needle on Full [Cover adds the subtitle Lesbian Feminist Science Fiction] (London: Onlywomen Press, 1985), 45-63.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Modest Proposal For Peace Prosperity and Happiness Y1 - 1984 A1 - Franky Schaeffer A1 - Harold Fickett KW - Male author AB -

Satire against secular humanism which is presented as supporting totalitarianism and human bioengineering.

PB - Thomas Nelson CY - Nashville, TN ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scapescope Y1 - 1984 A1 - John E[dward] Stith (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future authoritarian dystopia set in 2150 in which most people are employed by the government. The "Scapescope" is a device through which it is possible to see the future and much of the novel is a quest story finding a way to change a future.

PB - Ace Science Fiction Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Till Human Voices Wake Us" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A corporation is modifying humans and animals to produce eutopia with the eutopian ends justifying the dystopian means.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 66.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. [Michael] Bruce Sterling (New York: Arbor House, 1986), 125-38.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Twilight Time" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A time travel story with dystopias both in the present and the past. In the past, aliens are taking control; in the present, the U.S. has voted to give complete power to a group promising security. Actions in the past change the dystopian present.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 8.4 (77) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1985), 421-39 with an editor's note on 420.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Hunters: Chronicles of the High Inquest Y1 - 1984 A1 - Somtow [Papinian] Sucharitkul (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - Thai author KW - US author AB -

Third volume in a series with this volume focusing on a young woman artist struggling for understanding within the dystopia. See also 1982, 1983, and 1985 Sucharitkul. 

PB - Bantam CY - New York N1 -

Parts were originally published in slightly different form in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine as "Rainbow King." 5.2 (February 16, 1981): 136-66; "The Web Dancer." 3.12 (December 1979): 56-80; "The Dust." 5.8 (August 3, 1981): 110-35; "Remembrances." 6.4 (March 15, 1982): 54-80; and "Scarlet Snow." 6.5 (May 1982): 80-99; and as "The Comet That Cried for Its Mother." Amazing Stories 58.3 (September 1984): 30-49. A story that is an early version of part of this volume is "Darktouch." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 4.1(23) (January 1980): 18-41. Rpt. in his Fire from the Wine Dark Sea (Virginia Beach, VA: Donning, 1983), 221-44.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Warday and the Journey Onward Y1 - 1984 A1 - [Louis] Whitley Strieber (b. 1945) A1 - James W[illiam] Kunetka (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-nuclear war dystopia with a largely ruined U.S., an authoritarian dystopia in California, and a Hispanic/Native American state called Atzlán in what was Texas and New Mexico that presents itself as independent but is a vassal state of Japan. The U.S.S.R. was also destroyed, and Japan and the U.K. now dominate the world.

PB - Holt, Rinehart and Winston CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Artist of Hunger” Y1 - 1983 A1 - Scott Russell Sanders (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which life is centered on corporate-controlled malls.

JF - Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine VL - 7.7 (67) U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Calling all Gumdrops" Y1 - 1983 A1 - John [Thomas] Sladek (1937-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sixties adults become children while Seventies and Eighties children and advanced computers take on adult roles. Presented generally positively.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Century of Progress Y1 - 1983 A1 - Fred [Thomas] Saberhagen (1930-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the Third Reich in the future.

PB - Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Orbitsville Departure Y1 - 1983 A1 - Bob [Robert] Shaw (1931-96) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Flawed utopia about the negative effects of the good life on a huge artificial world. Earth is mostly a museum. Sequel to 1974 Shaw. Followed by his 1990 Orbitsville Judgement.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Plan B Y1 - 1983 A1 - Chester [Bomar] Himes (1908-84) ED - Michel Fabre ED - Robert E. Skinner KW - African American author AB -

Near future Black revolution. 

PB - University of Mississippi Press CY - Jackson U4 -

Originally published in French trans. Hélène Devaux-Minié. Paris: Lieu Common, 1983. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rainbow Cadenza; A Novel in Logosata Form Y1 - 1983 A1 - J[oseph] Neil Schulman (1953-2019) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. After various wars that destroyed New York (rebuilt as Newer York), cheap power supports a luxury lifestyle for some and what might appear to be a technological eutopia. But there are "touchables", an underclass who can be hunted, technology allows gender choice in children and there is a seven to one male unbalance, rape is common, and women are required to serve sexually in the military, among other aspects of a dystopia.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Street Meat" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A future of extreme poverty versus great wealth. The poor are fed "people kibble" and can buy cooked rats on the street for meat.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 17.13 N1 -

Rpt. in his Other Americas (New York: Bantam Books, 1988), 1-43.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Throne of Madness: Volume II of the Inquestor Trilogy Y1 - 1983 A1 - Somtow [Papinian] Sucharitkul (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - Thai author KW - US author AB -

Second volume in a series with this volume focusing on one man's struggle for meaning within the dystopia. See 1982, 1984, and 1985 Sucharitkul.

PB - Timescape CY - New York N1 -

Repub. as The Dawning Shadow: The Throne of Madness. New York: Bantam Books, 1986.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Space Y1 - 1982 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that develops as a result of the discovery of immortality.

PB - Timescape CY - New York N1 -

Parts published earlier as "The Summer's Dust." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 61.1 (362) (July 1981): 68-97; Rpt. in The Best of Pamela Sargent. Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg (Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago, 1987), 148-96; and in her The Mountain Cage and Other Stories (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2002), 283-322. "Afterword to 'The Summer's Dust'" (323); and "The Renewal" which was originally published in slightly different form in Immortal: Short Novels of the Transhuman Future. Ed. Jack Dann (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), 13-147.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Havoc in Islandia Y1 - 1982 A1 - Mark Saxton (1914-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A novel of romance and adventure set in the history of Islandia from 1942 Wright. See also 1969 and 1979 Saxton. 

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Light on the Sound Y1 - 1982 A1 - Somtow [Papinian] Sucharitkul (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - Thai author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia that destroys all utopias because of its belief that due to the Fall all utopias are necessarily false. But after the destruction of the twelfth utopia, a thirteenth is discovered that causes those assigned to destroy it to try to save it. The book discusses the nature of utopia. First volume in a series; see also 1983, 1984 and 1985 Sucharitkul.

PB - Timescape CY - New York N1 -

Rev. as The Dawning Shadow: The Light On the Sound. New York: Bantam Books, 1986. Part previously published as "The Thirteenth Utopia." Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact [99].4 (April 1979): 144-60, 162-64; which was rpt. in The Annual World's Best SF 1980. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim (New York: DAW Books, 1980), 20-42; and in his Fire from the Wine Dark Sea (Norfolk, VA: Donning, 1983), 17-38; and "Light on the Sound." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 4.8 (August 1980): 84-169. Described as the first volume of a trilogy, the series was later extended to four volumes.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prometheus Man; a nrobook Y1 - 1982 A1 - Ray [Radell] Faraday Nelson (1931-2022) ED - Hank Stine KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Anyone who fails academically becomes permanently a member of the unemployables living in camps. The men are sterilized. A second plot line concerns a man who intends to create a world eutopia using people of high intelligence. The two lines converge around a man, one of the unemployables, and his divorced wife, one of the super intelligent. Separately they lead changes in the two groups and end up back together. Some of the characters, plot, and text are repeated from 1978 Nelson.

PB - Donning CY - Norfolk, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Root... and Branch" Y1 - 1982 A1 - Michael [Robert] Collings (b. 1947) ED - Scott Smith ED - Vickie Smith KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia based on genetic testing that judges the worth of a person on the sorts of descendents they will have. People are mated to produce the best results. People who believe in such outmoded ideas as love and family are ostracized.

JF - LDSF: Science Fiction by Mormons PB - Millennial Productions CY - Thousand Oaks, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Rose for Armageddon Y1 - 1982 A1 - Hilbert [Van Nydeck] Schenck [Jr.] (1926-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Collapsing Western civilization and an attempt to create a eutopia by developing a huge new computing system.

PB - Timescape CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Allison & Busby, 1984. Rpt. London: Sphere, 1984.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Science Fiction Sequence" Y1 - 1982 A1 - Bill Sewell (1951-2003) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Poem containing a section "Utopia" (50-51), which contrasts life in an ideal society with the complications of life in this world.

JF - Solo Flight PB - University of Otago Press CY - Dunedin, New Zealand N1 -

“Utopia” is rpt. in Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand. Ed. Mark Pirie and Tim Jones (Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Interactive Press, 2009), 9.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Seven Tomorrows: Toward a Voluntary History Y1 - 1982 A1 - Paul Hawken A1 - James Ogilvy A1 - Peter Schwartz KW - Male author AB -

Futurism with seven alternative futures for the U.S. with both eutopian and dystopia scenarios.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shaving of Karl Marx; An Instant Novel of Ideas, After the Manner of Thomas Love Peacock, in which Lenin and H.G. Wells talk about the Political Meaning of the Scientific Romances Y1 - 1982 A1 - Leon [Eugene] Stover (1929-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Novel presenting perceived similarities between H.G. Wells (1866-1946) and Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924). Discusses Wells's dystopias The Time Machine (1895) and The First Men in the Moon (1901) among others.

PB - The Chiron Press CY - Lake Forest, IL ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sybil" Y1 - 1982 A1 - Elizabeth Petty Bentley ED - Scott Smith ED - Vickie Smith KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Life after the Second Coming from a Mormon perspective. Mortals work at their temples assisting those who are to be resurrected, while the resurrected do all the work needed.

JF - LDSF: Science Fiction by Mormons PB - Millennial Productions CY - Thousand Oaks, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow's Men Y1 - 1982 A1 - Michael [Sinclair MacAuslan] Shea (1938-2009) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of a violent future England.

PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Break Point. Sutton, Surrey, Eng.: Severn House, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Castaways of Tanagar Y1 - 1981 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A planetary eutopia that freezes its outcasts (criminals and dissidents). With the rediscovery of Earth and the plan to explore it, the outcasts become necessary and so some are brought back to life. The eutopia, Tanager, is composed of Intellectuals, who dominate, Hedonists, and Pragmatists, who occupy a middle ground between the other two.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Co-operative Self-Sufficient Village" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Peter D[avid] Stanley KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A detailed plan for a self-sufficient, environmentally sound cooperative community autonomous in energy, food, and water. Mostly on the physical setting and the support structure, but it includes a discussion of social arrangements and the difficulties of setting it up.

JF - Research Essay. Bachelor of Town Planning PB - Department of Town Planning, University of Auckland, New Zealand CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Green Futures of Tycho Y1 - 1981 A1 - William [Warner] Sleator [III] (1945-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Children's time travel book that includes a future authoritarian dystopia.

PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Puffin, 1991; and New York: Starscape, 2005. This ed. includes a "Reader's Guide" (115-21). U.K. ed. London: Macdonald, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mallworld Y1 - 1981 A1 - Somtow [Papinian] Sucharitkul (b. 1952) ED - Hank Stine KW - Male author KW - Thai author KW - US author AB -

A collection of related stories about Mallworld, which is a mall thirty kilometers long with some 20,000 shops that was sent into an alternate universe by aliens who are studying the human race.

PB - Donning CY - Norfolk, VA N1 -

Rev. ed. without the illus. [New York]: Tor, 1984. Later editions were published as The Ultimate Mallworld. Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin Press, 2000; and The Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld. Illus. Karl Kofoed. Bangkok, Thailand/Los Angeles, CA: Diplodocus Press, 2013 with “Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate” by Somtow (unpaged). Parts were originally published as “A Day in Mallworld.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 3.10 (20) (October 1979): 74-95 (1-22). Rpt. in the 1984 Mallworld (15-44); rpt. in The Ultimate Mallworld (15-42); rpt. in The Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld (15-41); “Sing a Song of Mallworld.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 4.7 (29) (July 1980): 28-53 (23-50). Rpt. in the 1984 Mallworld (46-81); rpt. in The Ultimate Mallworld (43-78); rpt. in The Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld (43-74); “The Vampire of Mallworld.” Amazing Science Fiction Stories Combined with Fantastic 27.12 (May 1981): 22-? (51-77). Rpt. in the 1984 Mallworld (83-118); rpt. in The Ultimate Mallworld (79-113); rpt. in The Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld (79-110); “Rabid in Mallworld.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 4.6 (29) (June 1980): 20-44 (78-102). Rpt. in the 1984 Mallworld (119-51); rpt. in The Ultimate Mallworld (115-45); rpt. in The Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld (115-43); “Mallworld Graffiti.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 5.9 (43) (August 31, 1981): 130-65 (103-36). Rpt. in the 1984 Mallworld (153-204); rpt. in The Ultimate Mallworld (147-91); rpt. in The Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld (147-89); “The Dark Side of Mallworld.” Illus Stephen Fabian. Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 5.11 (45) (October 26, 1981): 138-68 (139-71). Rpt. in the 1984 Mallworld (205-48); rpt. in The Ultimate Mallworld (193-230); rpt. in The Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld (193-30). “The Jaws of Mallworld” is original to the first version (172-94). Rpt. in the 1984 Mallworld (249-84); in The Ultimate Mallworld (235-64 with pages 281-84/rev. on 263-64); rpt. in The Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld (235-64). The Ultimate Mall World adds “A Mall and the Gneiss Visitors.” Rpt. in The Ultimate Mallworld (269-92); rpt. in The Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld (269-92); “Bug-eyed in Mallworld” (297-330); rpt. in The Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld (297-330). See also “The Mallworld Falcon.” In The Ultimate Alien. Ed. Byron Preiss, John Betancourt, and Keith R. A. DeCandido (New York: Dell/A Byron Preiss Book, 1995), 41-73. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Snake Who Read Chomsky” Y1 - 1981 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Female author AB -

The setting of the story is a dystopia with a rigid division between the upper and lower classes, with the latter considered of no value whatsoever.

JF - Universe PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY VL - 11 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Power of Time (London: Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1985), 142-64; and in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 700-11 with an editors’ note on 699.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "That Was the Year That Was" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Brian Strong KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A report on New Zealand in 2100 in which it has become mostly agricultural, with the workers housed underground. Wellington is gone; the North and South Islands have separate governments with the South the stronger; and huge areas, including Otago and the Bay of Plenty are solar fields.

JF - WARP: The Magazine of the [New Zealand] National Association for Science Fiction VL - no. 22 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - To Every Birth Its Blood Y1 - 1981 A1 - Mongane [Wally] Serote (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The novel depicts contemporary South Africa with strong images of the Black dystopia contrasted with the white eutopia (from the black perspective). Beginnings of the future violent revolution with some hope of improvement.

PB - Ravan Press CY - Johannesburg, South Africa N1 -

Rpt. London: William Heinemann, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Market, to market" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia of cannibalism.

JF - Woman Space: Future and Fantasy Stories and Art by Women PB - New Victoria Publishers CY - Lebanon, NH N1 -

Rpt. in her The Power of Time (London: Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1985), 95-96. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Turning" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Elaine McKay Smith AB -

Post-catastrophe story with elements of an authoritarian dystopia with a dwindling population and a controlled citizenry but also with elements of an literal rebirth that brings about change.

JF - Woman Space: Future and Fantasy Stories and Art by Women PB - New Victoria Publishers CY - Lebanon, NH U2 -

Illus. Claudia Lamperti 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Venus Belt Y1 - 1981 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The libertarian eutopia of Smith’s 1980 The Probability Broach is threatened by an authoritarian dystopia. Second in the North American Confederacy series, followed, in publication order, by Their Majesties' Bucketeers. Illus. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. 182 pp.; The Nagasaki Vector. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. 242 pp., neither of which have much to do with the main themes in the series; Tom Paine Maru. New York: Ballantine. 273 pp. Rpt. rev. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 222 pp. [An author’s note says that the first edition was badly cut by the publisher and that this version reflects his original intent]; The Gallatin Divergence. New York: Ballantine, 1985. 223 pp.; Brightsuit MacBear. New York: Avon, 1988. 212 pp.; and Taflak Lysandra. New York: Avon, 1988. 230 pp. (1989), in all three of which there are clashes between the Confederacy and the authoritarian Federalists; and The American Zone (2001) which is a sequel to The Probability Broach. In the chronology of the series, the volumes are The Probability Broach, The Nagasaki Vector, The American Zone, The Venus Belt, The Gallatin Divergence, Tom Paine Maru, Brightsuit MacBear, Taflak Lysandra, and Their Majesties' Bucketeers. A story set in the same future is his 1989 “The Spirit of Exmas Sideways.”

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York SN - 0-343-28721-5 9781604504422 N1 -

Rpt. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 163 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Walden Three" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) ED - Marta Randall (b. 1948) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created on a space habitat circling Earth that came about by the “good intention” of changing people so that they all got along. It is seen through the eyes of a visitor from Earth who hates the place and a man on the satellite whose lover died because the good of everybody took away the one thing she most enjoyed doing.

JF - New Dimensions PB - Timescape/Pocket Books CY - New York VL - 12 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Timescape/Pocket Books, 1982), 131-54.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When We Were Good Y1 - 1981 A1 - David J[ohn] Skal (1952-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia. After many years of war, the human genome has been badly damaged and the attempts to produce children go seriously wrong.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2010: Thirty Years On the Fast Track" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Steve[n] Maharey (b. 1953) A1 - Roy Shuker (b. 1948) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Satire with multinational corporations the dominant force worldwide. New Zealand, which is presented as a utopia, has a core, highly technical economy that employs few people and a fringe economy produces little but gives people something to do. Trade unions tied to the central government and representing the unemployed, the vast majority of the population. “Maoristans” established so that Māori could return to the land. Alternative lifestyles encouraged. All groups agree to not interfere with the core economy. 

JF - Comment (Palmerston North, New Zealand) VL - ns 12 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Artificial Kid Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk eutopia and dystopia. The planet Reverie is initially presented as a somewhat odd plutocratic eutopia containing a violent Decriminalized Zone. The Artificial Kid is a combat artist.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1987; and San Francisco, CA: Hardwired, 1997 with a “Foreword” by William Gibson (1-6). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Ashkenazia” Y1 - 1980 A1 - Clive [John]] Sinclair KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on culture and politics. Yiddish is the national language of Ashkenazia, but all the authors are desperate to be translated into English, The point-of-view character is one of those authors. Corrupt politics, and the Prime Minister is desperate to conclude a deal with Hitler for Ashkenazia’s uranium deposits. Much of the action takes place at a writers’ conference.

JF - Encounter VL - 55.5 N1 -

Rpt. in his Bedbugs (London: Alison & Busby, 1982), 113-22; rpt. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005), 113-22. and in his For Good or Evil: Collected Stories (London: Penguin, 1991, 238-248.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Byte Your Tongue!" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) ED - Judy-Lynn del Rey (1943-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future in which computers dominate, with the focus here on the U.S. Senate, where Senators are no longer elected but have to pass computer generated tests to remain in office.

JF - Stellar Science-Fiction Stories PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York VL - #6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Ghost of a Model T and Other Stories: The Complete Short Stories of Clifford D. Simak Volume Three. New York: Open Road, 2015. EBook.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cast Off Your Chains" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Silvestri, Margaret ED - [Marion Zimmer] [Bradley] (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story. 

JF - Tales of the Free Amazons PB - Thendara House Publications CY - Berkeley, CA N1 -

Rpt. in Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Friends of Darkover. Free Amazons of Darkover. Ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley (New York: DAW Books, 1985), 34-49.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City Come A-Walkin' Y1 - 1980 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian San Francisco embodied in one man who tries to understand all of himself. In San Francisco government has been displaced by banks, the mob, and the right wing.

PB - Dell CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Eyeball Books, 1996; and New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000, with a "Foreword" by William Gibson (1-4) saying how much his Neuromancer (1984) was influenced by it.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cosmos" Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Friedrich Georg Maria Theodor] [Strewe] (1910-86) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Begins in a dystopian city called the Total Society composed of humans, clones, and robots intended to produce an authoritarian but good society. The system breaks down and everyone who can flees the city. Outside there were already various groups. Near the city were youth gangs, expelled city dwellers, and malformed clones. Further out there was The Alternative, fortified intentional communities. New Age, healthy, no disease. The best of these is called Cosmos Commune and is a eutopia.

PB - Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. MS-Papers-5921-083 U3 -

By Odo Strewe [pseud.]

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. MS-Papers-5921-083

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Demeter Flower Y1 - 1980 A1 - Rochelle Singer (b. 1939) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist eutopia in which a successful women-only community has to face a generational conflict and a visit of a couple from a patriarchal community.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Feast of Saint Janis" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) ED - Marta Randall (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia following a world-wide economic collapse following some sort of nuclear accident with the U.S. particularly hard hit and Africa relatively well off because it practiced corporate social responsibility. Genetic damage. Janis is Janis Joplin (1943-70) who is impersonated and, once a year, the impersonator is killed by the crowd.

JF - New Dimensions PB - Pocket Books CY - New York VL - 11 N1 -

Rpt. in Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead. Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1985), 295-325; and in The Best of Michael Swanwick (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008), 13-41. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Future Lost” Y1 - 1980 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief eutopia of a future that in eliminating aggression and ending war produced a society with completely free and open sexuality.

JF - Omni N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Five (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 195-200. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Green is for Galanx Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Jeanne] [Dixon] (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel in which a dystopian society puts the gifts of unusually talented children into androids. Social control through entertainment.

PB - Atheneum CY - New York U3 -

Josephine Rector Stone [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Island. A Male Chauvinist Comedy" Y1 - 1980 A1 - James Saunders (1925-2004) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Men seemed to have died out and women reproduce without them. Three young sisters have been placed on an idyllic isolated island to live a new and better life. They long for something they can't identify, and then some men show up.

JF - Bye Bye Blues and Other Plays PB - Amber Lane Press CY - Ambergate, Derby, Eng. ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mind Game Y1 - 1980 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia brought about through mental control.

PB - Jove CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1985.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Probability Broach Y1 - 1980 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in a U. S. where the government is systematically limiting individual rights, but it then moves into an alternative history eutopia set in a libertarian North American Confederacy and is the first volume of a loosely connected series set in the Confederacy. A story set in the same future is his “The Spirit of Exmas Sideways” (1989). In publication order, the volumes, not all of which are utopian, the series includes The Venus Belt (1980); Their Majesties' Bucketeers. Illus. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. 182 pp.; The Nagasaki Vector. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. 242 pp., neither of which have much to do with the main themes in the series; Tom Paine Maru. New York: Ballantine. 273 pp. Rpt. rev. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 222 pp. [An author’s note says that the first edition was badly cut by the publisher and that this version reflects his original intent]; The Gallatin Divergence. New York: Ballantine, 1985. 223 pp.; Brightsuit MacBear. New York: Avon, 1988. 212 pp.; Taflak Lysandra. New York: Avon, 1988. 230 pp., in all three of which there are clashes between the Confederacy and the authoritarian Federalists; and The American Zone (2001) which is a sequel to The Probability Broach. In the chronology of the series, the volumes are The Probability Broach, The Nagasaki Vector, The American Zone, The Venus Belt, The Gallatin Divergence, Tom Paine Maru, Brightsuit MacBear, Taflak Lysandra, and Their Majesties' Bucketeers. The novel won the 1982 Prometheus Prize of the Libertarian Futurist Society.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York SN - 9780345285935 Rev. ed. 9780812538755 Graphic Novel 9780974381411 N1 -

Rev. ed. [the author’s website calls it the “unexpurgated” edition]. New York: Tor, 1996. 305 pp. Rpt. New York: Orb, 2001. 317 pp. See also Smith and Scott Bieser, illustrator. The Probability Broach: The Graphic Novel. Round Rock, TX: Big Head Press, 2004. 185 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Songs from the Stars Y1 - 1980 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological eutopia that develops initially as a conflict between those practicing the old science of physics and those who have rejected that science. By the end of the novel, the two groups are forced to work together.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stepfather Bank" Y1 - 1980 A1 - [David Charles] [Poyer] (b. 1949) ED - Victoria Schochet ED - John Silbersack KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in 2110 in which the "Bank," having gradually gained control of all corporations, owns everything. It employs everyone except one poet.

JF - The Berkley Showcase; New Writings in Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Berkley CY - New York VL - 1 U3 -

David Andreissen [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Still Forms on Foxfield Y1 - 1980 A1 - Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on Quaker (Society of Friends) beliefs. The novel is concerned with how the society deals with potential conflict with more technologically advanced later settlers.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Travails of Jane Saint Y1 - 1980 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel begins with Jane Saint being sentenced to total reprogramming in an isolation chamber for being a revolutionary, which, in the context, means an advocate for women’s liberation. The novel then follows her “experiences” during the period she is in the chamber, experiences that center around a quest to free women. Much fantasy, with talking dogs, one of whom is named Merleau-Ponty, after the French philosopher; a friendly, supportive demon; a witch; a shaman; and so forth. See also 1989 Saxton, which is a sequel.

PB - Virgin Books CY - London N1 -

Part previously published as "Jane Saint's Travails." Amazons! Ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson (New York: DAW Books, 1979), 107-16.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Watchstar Y1 - 1980 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume in a young adult trilogy followed by her Eye of the Comet. New York: Harper & Row, 1984; and Homesmind. New York: Harper & Row, 1984. This volume takes place in a future that has rejected technology or, to their way of thinking, outgrown it. People live in small villages, communicate only by telepathy, are telekinetic, and can fly. Those born without these abilities are killed. Each person must go through an individual rite of passage, and the protagonist is going through hers when she meets a boy who has descended to Earth from a comet in which he lives. He is from the without telepathic powers who were people left behind and fled Earth to live on comets in space. Eye of the Comet focuses on a young woman who is set the task by Homesmind, a cybernetic mind, of reconciling the two societies. Homesmind concludes with the conflict between the two worldviews and its impact on the various protagonists.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Alongside Night Y1 - 1979 A1 - J[oseph] Neil Schulman (1953-2019) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia based on an extrapolation of a continuing economic downturn.

PB - Crown CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues Y1 - 1979 A1 - Ronald Sukenick (1932-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of modern life with some elements of science fiction.

PB - Fiction Collective CY - New York N1 -

Parts originally published under the same title in Granta, [no. 1] (Spring 1979): 181-90; Luna Park; and Ploughshares, no. 18 (5.3) (Fall 1979): 165-76.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Praise All the Moons of Morning Y1 - 1979 A1 - [Jeanne] [Dixon] (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which the inhabitants are kept passive with a drug. A young girl in the dystopia and a woman from the past help free the people.

PB - Atheneum CY - New York U3 -

Josephine Rector Stone [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sudden Star Y1 - 1979 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of overpopulation and violence. Medical care severely restricted.

PB - Fawcett Gold Medal CY - New York U1 -

U.K. ed. as The White Death

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Transmaniacon Y1 - 1979 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in the 22nd century. The continental U.S. is cut off from the rest of the world by an apparently impenetrable barrier. Inside the barrier there are a number of authoritarian city-states. The novel follows one man's successful attempt to escape.

PB - Zebra Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Two Kingdoms; A Novel of Islandia Y1 - 1979 A1 - Mark Saxton (1914-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A novel of romance and adventure set in the history of Islandia from 1942 Wright. See also 1969 Saxton and 1982 Saxton. The author worked for the publisher of 1942 Wright and assisted Wright’s daughter in preparing the manuscript for publication. 

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Vandal Y1 - 1979 A1 - Ann [Acheson] Schlee (b. 1934) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult future dystopia run by scientists who use drugs to control the citizenry. Vandalism as an act of rebellion against authority. Solidarity with other young people who are being controlled by the authorities.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Crown, 1981.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A World Between Y1 - 1979 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pacifica is a decentralized, electronic democracy with gender equality threatened by two authoritarian dystopias, one lesbian, one technological.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York SN - 0-671-82876-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Alien Sensation." Y1 - 1978 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) ED - Alice Laurence KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Far future dystopia. Humans spend life drugged and dreaming, being fed experiences in pill form. They are maintained by aliens, and apparently humans had already chosen this way of life before the aliens arrived to colonize the planet.

JF - Cassandra Rising PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Body Game" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a rich/poor division based around the possibility of being able to purchase a new body when the old one wears out.

JF - Omni VL - 1.3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Omni Science Fiction. Ed. Ben Bova and Don Myrus (New York: Omni Society, 1980), 34-37.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cave Y1 - 1978 A1 - John Sligo (b. 1944) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which the protagonist tries to assassinate the Leader and is arrested and tortured. He is helped to escape, and the novel ends with a war about to begin.

PB - John McIndoe CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Differences Are Cause For Joy. View from the Year Twenty-two Hundred. Essay in Feminist Theory" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Jessica Amanda Salmonson (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction feminist eutopia with gender equality, a population in balance, no more violence or war, a balanced ecology, agism and racism gone, and there is no religion.

JF - Mythologies VL - no. 14 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Diggers: The Story of a Commune Y1 - 1978 A1 - David Starsmeare KW - Male author AB -

Play about 1652 Winstanley and the Diggers.

PB - Blackie CY - Glasgow, Scot. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia Y1 - 1978 A1 - Bernard [Herbert] Suits (1925-2007) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A fictional consideration of the nature of utopia that discusses a number of possible utopias. The basic position is that utopia would be the playing of games or activities valued only for themselves rather than being instrumental.

PB - University of Toronto Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

U.K. ed. Edinburgh, Scot.: Scottish Academic Press, 1978. Rpt. with a new Introduction by Thomas Hurka (7-20) and additional material. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2005. This should be read with his "The Grasshopper: Posthumous Reflections on Utopia." Utopias. Ed. Peter Alexander and Roger Gill (London: Duckworth, 1984), 197-209; first published as "Games and Utopia: Posthumous Reflections." Simulation and Games 15.1 (March 1984): 5-24.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Days of the Sunshine People Y1 - 1978 A1 - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A play about a plan to eliminate all Blacks in the U.S. showing the stages it goes through and the failure of Blacks to believe warnings. Closely related to his 1973 Count-Down to Black Genocide in that in both, a “Black Day” is proclaimed as a holiday to honor blacks, but it is actually the day on which the slaughter of blacks is to happen. At the end, some Blacks do come to believe the plan is real inspired by a man who has been given a book called The Code of the Black Brotherhood. These blacks decide to create a new nation, Afro-America, also mentioned in Count-Down to Black Genocide. See also 1971, 1974, and 1975 (2).

PB - Nuclassics and Science Publishing CY - Washington, DC U1 -

The cover adds about The Beginning of the coming BLACK HOLOCAUST

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Saggittarus [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Report of the Committee on the Operation of the Sexual Containment Act. Chairman: Michael Schofield. Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales by Command of Her Majesty, October 1984 Y1 - 1978 A1 - Michael [George] Schofield (1919-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia under a law to control "excessive" sexual activity. Members of the Committee include Mr. Leopold Bloom and Mrs. Winston Smith.

PB - Davis-Poynter CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anti-Matter Y1 - 1977 A1 - C. M. Stanbury AB -

Satire on the contemporary U.S. as seen by an archeologist of the far future basing his analysis on science fiction, TV, and newspapers.

PB - Dustbooks CY - Paradise, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Construction of an Aquarian Age City-State Y1 - 1977 A1 - David D'Ely Spain KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A vague description of a fairly typical New Age eutopia of the time.

PB - Author CY - Nimbin, QLD, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An Elder Womon's Tale from the Year 2000" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Bonnie Sundance KW - Female author AB -

Short feminist eutopia tracing the first years of a "womyn's" community as told by a community elder.

JF - Womanspirit (Portland, OR) VL - 3.11 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Stocks" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1973 Malzberg in which women are sent into the homosexual enclave in attempt to "cure" the homosexuality of the men in the enclave.

JF - New Dimensions Science Fiction PB - Harper & Row CY - New York VL - No. 7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Molly Zero" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which all children are raised together in single sex groups. One girl revolts, escapes, and experiences life on the outside.

JF - Triax: Three Original Novellas by James Gunn, Keith Roberts, Jack Vance PB - Pinnacle Books CY - Los Angeles, CA N1 -

Expanded into his Molly Zero. London: Victor Gollancz, 1980.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nightwatch Y1 - 1977 A1 - Andrew M[ichael] Stephenson (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure and intrigue. Authoritarian dystopia set in 2006 with the Earth near collapse and aliens arriving.

PB - Futura CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Dell, 1977.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Realms of Tartarus Y1 - 1977 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A technological eutopia built above a polluted earth and the dystopia on the surface where humans, animals, and plants had evolved into a myriad of new species.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

The first section had originally been published as The Face of Heaven. The Realms of Tartarus Volume One. London: Quartet, 1976 as the first of an intended three volumes. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Screwfly Solution” Y1 - 1977 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is about the Sons of Adam, a growing religious movement that kills women.

JF - Analog Science Fiction Science Fact VL - 96.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 435-53; Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), 83-101; in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 287-310, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 184-86; and in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 291-320, with a biographical note on 465-467 and a note on the text on 486.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shadow of a Snowstorm" Y1 - 1977 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which there are so few jobs that humans replace mannequins in department stores.

JF - Amazing Science Fiction Stories VL - 51.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Exploded Heart (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 66-90, with an author's note on 65-66.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sneak Previews" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future, presented as dystopian, in which marriage is required with a time limit on remaining single.

JF - Penthouse VL - 8 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 77-84. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ulster and Its Future After the Troubles Y1 - 1977 A1 - Michael [Steven] Sheane (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Non-fiction that ends with a chapter "Postscript Ulster: Its Future After the Troubles" (153-72) that projects the situation in 2000 after Britain has withdrawn from Northern Ireland and a federal Ireland is established. Quite modest in its ideas.

PB - Highfield Press CY - Stockport, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - [“Utopian Construction”] Y1 - 1977 A1 - Mulford Q[uickert] Sibley (1912-89) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fictional description of a culturally diverse world eutopia. Universal language plus regional and sub-regional languages. Any family form accepted. Neighborhoods are the most important focus socially and politically. Complete free speech. Vegetarian, as was the author.

JF - Nature and Civilization: Some Implications for Politics PB - F.E. Peacock Publishers CY - Itasca, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - YV88; An Eco-Fiction of Tomorrow Y1 - 1977 A1 - Christopher Swan A1 - Chet Roaman (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological eutopia set in 1988 focusing on Yosemite National Park beginning with a ride on a new train into the park that replaces the road and runs on a combination of the roadbed and the right of way of an earlier train. Most of the facilities in the park have been removed to return the park to a wilderness. Wildlife is returning. Extensive use of improved solar power. De-damming. There is a chronology showing the changes between 1978 and 1988 (104-05). Presented in a wide variety of ways including letters, postcards, reminiscences, architectural plans, an argument between two people, a TV transcript, detailed plans for the train engine, stations, and rail cars. stories, and stories. The policies that were developed for reversing environmental damage, such as removing asphalt, are slowly being adopted elsewhere in the country.

PB - Sierra Club Books CY - San Francisco, CA U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Florians Y1 - 1976 A1 - Brian M[ichael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First of the six volume Daedalus Mission series in which the purpose of the Daedalus is to contact colony planets to find out what has happened and help if needed. The first planet contact, Floria, appears idyllic society, but the Planners have created an unequal society by limiting knowledge. The second volume is Critical Threshold. New York: DAW Books, 1977. 160 pp. In it, a colony that should have thrived has collapsed. The third volume is Wildeblood's Empire. New York: DAW Books, 1977. 192 pp. This colony, originally called Poseidon, has become an apparently thriving empire named after leader. Of course, the reality is different, and it is actually an authoritarian dystopia. The fourth volume, set on the planet Arcadia is The City of the Sun. New York: DAW Books, 1978. 189 pp. U.K. ed. London: Hamlyn 1980 had modelled its system on Tommaso Campanella’s (1568-1639) La Città del Sole (1611) but with changes that made it more dystopian than eutopian.  The fifth book is set on the planet Attica Balance of Power. New York DAW Books, 1979. 173 pp. and concerns a failing human colony, and its interactions with an alien colony also on the planet. The final volume, Paradox of the Sets. New York: DAW Books, 1979. 176 pp. is set on the Planet Geb where humans have enslaved what appears to be a semi-intelligent native population. All volumes are concerned with both the ecology of the planets and the forms of society established.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Glutt" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Gladden Schrock ED - Eugene Lion ED - David Ball KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a man is executed for his lack of community feeling and involvement.

JF - Guthrie New Theater PB - Grove Press CY - New York VL - 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadrach in the Furnace Y1 - 1976 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia with a leader compulsively concerned with immortality. Most of the novel is concerned with the leader's doctor, Mordecai Shadrach, and the decisions he has to make.

PB - Bobbs-Merrill CY - Indianapolis, IN N1 -

Also published in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 96.8 - 10 (August - October 1976): 97-162; 88-162; 88-127; 10-74, 76-91, 129-56.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tricentennial" Y1 - 1976 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Extremely violent, poverty stricken, overpopulated urban dystopia.

JF - The Exploded Heart PB - Eyeball Books CY - Asheville, NC N1 -

Originally published in the Portland Scribe.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Your Cruel Face” Y1 - 1976 A1 - Craig [Kee] Strete (b. 1950 KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Dystopia in which six misdemeanors merit instant execution. 

JF - Computer Decisions VL - 8 N1 -

Rpt. in his If All Else Fails . . . (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1980), 115-19. [The book includes an “Introduction: Notes on a Dangerous Writer” by Jorge Luis Borges (vii-viii)]; and in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 187-89. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light." Y1 - 1976 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) ED - Susan Janice Anderson ED - Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia of violence directed particularly at women.

JF - Aurora: Beyond Equality PB - Fawcett Books CY - Greenwich, CT N1 -

Rpt. in James Tiptree, Jr. [pseud.], Her Smoke Rose Up Forever: The Great Years of James Tiptree, Jr. (Suak City, WI: Arkham House, 1990), 149-67; and in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 247-63.

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Raccoona Sheldon [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crucifixion of Brotherman (The Man Behind the Laughing Shadow). A Play (from the Notes of Brotherman) Y1 - 1975 A1 - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia of being a Black man, particularly a Black scientist, in the U.S. The play focuses on the mistreatment of an up-and-coming Black graduate student. See also 1971 (2), 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 Shears, I Am Ishmael, and 1978 Shears. 

PB - Nuclassics and Science Publishing CY - Washington, DC U3 -

Saggittarus [pseud.]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dybbuk Dolls" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of poverty and anti-Semitism. Most groups live in high-rise ghettos. The dybbuk dolls are alien artifacts that reinforce a person's worst characteristics.

JF - New Dimensions Number 5 PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Light Years and Dark; Science Fiction and Fantasy Of and For Our Time. Ed. Michael Bishop (New York: Berkley Books, 1984), 78-92.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Electronic Lullaby Meat Market Y1 - 1975 A1 - John [Barry] Spencer (1944-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humor. Authoritarian dystopia with brainwashing through musak.

PB - Quartet Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - From the Legend of Biel Y1 - 1975 A1 - Mary Staton (b. 1945?) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A complex novel focusing on a highly advanced society both technically and socially trying to push human evolution along faster with both positive and negative results. This culture, which is part of a vast federation of worlds, meets a primitive culture on one world and the humans who visit that planet.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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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 - "Heavens Below: Fifteen Utopias" Y1 - 1975 A1 - John [Thomas] Sladek (1937-2000) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Series of short utopias gone wrong. Some are jokes rather than serious comment.

JF - The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Horse of a Different Technicolor” Y1 - 1975 A1 - Craig [Kee] Strete (b. 1950 KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Something of a surveillance dystopia in which some of the means of surveillance are embedded in a person’s body and used to implant thoughts. The story is told from the point-of-view of someone who, as a result, is no longer sure who they are. 

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 36.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his If All Else Fails . . . (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1980), 44-53. [The book includes an “Introduction: Notes on a Dangerous Writer” by Jorge Luis Borges (vii-viii]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - I Am Ishmael, Son of the Blackamoor. A Play Y1 - 1975 A1 - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The play is about a charismatic African American who, because he is so popular, becomes Vice President of the U. S., marries a white woman, and then, on the death of the President, becomes President. Although his progressive policies are both popular and successful, because he married the white woman, a white man who wanted her vows to kill him and so do black women, who feel betrayed by him. See also 1971 (2), 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 Shears, The Crucifixion of Brotherman, and 1978 Shears. 

PB - Nuclassics and Science Publishing CY - Washington, DC U3 -

Saggittarus [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye of the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, and Leviathan Y1 - 1975 A1 - Robert [Joseph] Shea (1933-94) A1 - Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that revels in conspiracy theories and secret societies. The novels have significant libertarian themes, and in 1986 the book won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award of the Libertarian Futurist Society. Adapted as a series of five plays, The Eye of the Pyramid, Swift Kick Inc., The Man Who Murdered God, Walpurgisnacht Rock, and Leviathan, with each play consisting of five twenty-three-minute acts and first performed in Liverpool in 1976. It was also adapted as a comic book with three issues formally published and a fourth issue distributed at comic book conventions. Wilson was more identified with the novels than Shea, and he published three autobiographical novels that continued to considered themes of the trilogy, Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati. Grand Junction, CO: Hilaritas Press, 1977; Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth. Las Vegas, NV: New Falcon Publications, 1991; and Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death. Las Vegas, NV: New Falcon Publications, 1995. He also published The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, comprised of The Earth Will Shake. A Novel. Los Angeles, CA: J. P. Tarcher, 1982; The Widow’s Son. New York: Bluejay Books, 1985; and Nature’s God. New York: Roc, 1991; and Masks of the Illuminati. New York Dell, 1981. See also 2017 [Drummond and Cauty].

PB - Dell CY - New York VL - 3 vols. N1 -

Originally published as Illuminatus, Part I The Eye of the Pyramid. New York: Dell, 1975. 304 pp. Cover as Illuminatus! (1-305); Illuminatus Part II The Golden Apple New York: Dell, 1975. 272 pp. Cover as Illuminatus! (305-562); and Illuminatus Part III Leviathan. New York: Dell, 1975. 253 pp. Cover as Illuminatus! (563-805).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Atlantis" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Bureaucratic, authoritarian, and violent dystopia. War is constant; global warming is destroying the planet; the government controls all power sources, which are failing; food and medication are in short supply; marriage and the nuclear family are illegal; women cannot be admitted to medical school; and minor bureaucratic rules are used to keep people in line for fear of being imprisoned.

JF - The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction PB - Hawthorn Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1976), 165-92; in Dream’s Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 185-205; in her The Compass Rose: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 12-40. U.K. ed. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1983), 12-40; in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction. Ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin and Brian Attebery. Karen Joy Fowler, Consultant (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 317-36; and in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 229-56, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 228.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sierra Maestra" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The revolutionaries of the New Left abandon revolution and infiltrate the economic and political system until they can take over and institute their policies. The story ends just as they succeed. The policies mentioned include 100 per cent tax on profits, forgiveness of all government debt, and prohibition of private ownership of all cars.

JF - Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact VL - 95.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Star-Spangled Future (New York: Ace Books, 1979), 293-305 with an "Introduction to Sierra Maestra" (291-92).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tomorrow File Y1 - 1975 A1 - Lawrence [A.] Sanders (1920-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in the form of a mystery novel set in a complex future U.S. Drugs, biological advances. Power has moved to the bureaucracy, which is primarily concerned with itself rather than the country. The Department of Bliss replaces the Department of Health and Human Services and other, similar changes have taken place in U.S. government. The U.S. has added states from throughout the world. Language has changed: Love means money, Objects means people, Obso. means old referring to both people and artifacts, Profit means benefit or enjoying, Service means work, and Using means sex.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Berkley Books, 1976. U.K. ed. London: Corgi, 1977.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unpopular Planet Y1 - 1975 A1 - Evelyn E. Smith (1927-2000) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. No violence. Sex only with permission.

PB - Dell CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Weapons" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) A1 - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that violently enforces racial and class discrimination.

JF - Dystopian Visions PB - Prentice-Hall CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Before the Setting Sun: The Age Before Hambone Y1 - 1974 A1 - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Details the rise to power of a Black general that resulted from the dystopia created by government in eliminating individual freedom and favoring the wealthy. See also 1971 (2), 1972, 1973, 1975 (2), and 1978 Shears.  

PB - Nuclassics and Science Publishing CY - Washington, DC U1 -

The short title page adds (The Rise to Power of America’s Black Dictator).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brown Pelican Y1 - 1974 A1 - George Sklar (1908-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Dramatists Play Service CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Chief Justice Wore a Red Dress" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Doris L[ipson] Sassower (1932-2019) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of gender equality with a focus on the legal profession presented partially fictionally and partially in an historical essay. In the eutopia, the Equal Rights Amendment had passed. A Parental Responsibility Act limited the hours of work of parents with pre-school-age children to twenty-five hours a week, and there was free federally funded day care for twenty-five hours per week. 

JF - Woman In the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City in the Sky Y1 - 1974 A1 - Curt Siodmak (1902-2000) KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly adventure but depicts both a dystopian prison in a satellite in space and a large space satellite community that is described positively.

PB - G. P. Putnam’s Sons CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - House of Stairs Y1 - 1974 A1 - William [Warner] Sleator [III] (1945-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a doctor tries to condition five orphans to become perfect tools of the state. He succeeds with three of them. A group of talented children are run through a maze ("This book is dedicated to all the rats and pigeons who have already been here.") in an attempt to create an elite. Authoritarian dystopia in the background.

PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love Conquers All" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Fred [Thomas] Saberhagen (1930-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia based on Zero Population Growth.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 35.11 - 36.1 N1 -

Repub. New York: Ace Books, 1979. Rev. ed. New York: Baen, 1985.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paradise Game Y1 - 1974 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The planet Pharos is a paradise with no conflict, and the novel focuses on the conflict between those who want to package it for profit or conserve it. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1976. 158 pp.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Time Deer" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Craig [Kee] Strete (b. 1950 KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

The story begins in a near-future where “the Monday morning traffic jam was three days old” (54), but its focus is on an old man watching a boy (his younger self but with knowledge of his own future) who is watching a deer. The old man is on his way to a doctor’s appointment arranged by the boy as adult with the intent of having his father declared incompetent. The ending is eutopian. 

JF - Red Deer Planet VL - 4 N1 -

Rpt. Worlds of If 22.8 (175) (November-December 1974): 45-50; and in his If All Else Fails . . . (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1980), 54-60. [The book includes an “Introduction: Notes on a Dangerous Writer” by Jorge Luis Borges (vii-viii]. 

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PLhS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Peace? Will women succeed where men consistently failed? Y1 - 1974 A1 - Dr. Charlotte M. Steiner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An odd pamphlet that argues “Prenatal Education” can produce children with specific characteristics, good or bad. The pamphlet outlines what the mother should do regarding diet, exercise, and “purposeful activities,” during pregnancy to bring about the only vaguely described eutopia. The author says that this is based on the writings of Dr. O. Z. Hanish (1844/56?-1936), whose writings on Prenatal Education were brought together in two collections published in Amsterdam in 1976. The book ends by mentioning a forthcoming novel, It All Starts in the Womb by Frank D. Steiner, which will illustrate Prenatal Education but does not appear to have even been published. 

PB - Author CY - Tuolumne, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Your Time, Your Station" Y1 - 1974 A1 - David [Allan] Saperstein (b. 1937) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The present day presented from the point-of-view of a future eutopia that stresses great variety rather than the uniformity seen in the present.

JF - Woman In the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Altar Egoes" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Bob [Robert] Shaw (1931-96) ED - Christopher Carrell KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Short satire on marriage in the future and the difficulties of the few who choose it.

JF - Beyond This Horizon: An Anthology of Science Fact and Science Fiction PB - Ceolfrith Arts CY - Sunderland, Eng. U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Count-Down to Black Genocide Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia brought about by a plan to eliminate the Black population of the United States in response to the energy crisis. The plan is carried out and most Blacks are killed. The remaining Blacks form Afro-America in what was Florida. See also 1971 (2), 1972, 1974, 1975 (2), and 1978 Shears. 

PB - Nuclassics and Science Publishing CY - Washington, DC N1 -

2nd ed. Washington, DC: Nuclassics and Science Publishing, 1973. The pagination of the two “editions” is identical. 

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Saggittarus [pseud.]. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Crisis on Earth-X" “Thirteen Against the Earth” Y1 - 1973 A1 - Len [Leonard Norman] Wein (1948-2017) ED - Dick Dillin (artist) ED - Dick Giordano (artist) ED - Julius Schwartz KW - Male author AB -

Comic in which superheroes overcome the dystopia created when the Nazis' win World War II. Continued in their 1973 "Thirteen Against the Earth."  Justice League of America, no. 108 (December 1973). 

JF - Justice League of America, VL - no. 107 - 108 U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Death of China, Europe and . . . (The World Ecological Catastrophe). A Very Amusing Satire. A Scientific Tragi-Comedy in 3 Acts Y1 - 1973 A1 - Apollo Silva (b. 1920) KW - Male author KW - Portuguese author AB -

The first act is set in Rome in 1990, the second on the moon, and the third on a eutopian island called the Model Country off Sardinia.

PB - Author CY - Oporto, Portugal ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fanshen and the Magic Bear Y1 - 1973 A1 - Becky Sarah KW - Female author AB -

Children’s story in which a young girl is the tax collector for a king and who hates taking from the poor for the rich king. The female bear, Fanshen, advises the girl to get all the people together and say that they were no longer going to pay taxes, and that they were going to divide the land up equally. They do and, in doing so, create a eutopia in which even the king is happy.

PB - New Seed Press CY - Stanford, CA U2 -

Illus. Dana Smith

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MiU, MnU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Faulty Register" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Joe [Joseph Nicholas] Gores (1931-2011) ED - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) ED - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Parallel world without any social or economic problems maintained by televised torture.

JF - Two Views of Wonder PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

PLhS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A eutopia that outlaws any misrepresentation of a product (advertising) is being successfully undermined by corporate interests.

JF - New Dimensions PB - Nelson Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY VL - 3 SN - 978-1-59853-732-1 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor, 1989. Tor Double bound with Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019). Screwtop [Originally published in The Crystal Ship: Three Original Novellas of Science Fiction. Ed. Robert Silverberg (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1976), 151-208]; in her Her Smoke Rose Up Forever ([Sauk City, WI:] Arkham House, 1990), 44-79; in Cybersex. Ed. Richard Glyn Jones (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996), 178-213; in The Ultimate Cyberpunk. Ed. Pat Cadigan (New York: ibooks, 2002), 74-120; in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 151-90; and in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 135-184, with a biographical note on 469-471 and notes on the text on 483-485.

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James Tiptree, Jr. [pseud.]

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O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Great Wall of Mexico" Y1 - 1973 A1 - John T[homas] Sladek (1937-2000) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future satirical U.S. dystopia in which there is an incompetent president, the government spies on everyone, the elderly are warehoused, and a wall is built to keep out illegal immigrants. 1971 Waskow is probably the basis for this.

JF - Bad Moon Rising PB - Harper & Row CY - New York SN - 06-011046-5 N1 -

U.K. ed. without the T. in his name (London: Hutchinson of London, 1974), 125-58. Rpt. without the T. in his name in his Keep the Giraffe Burning (London: Panther, 1977), 168-99; and again without the T. in his name in SciFiction www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted December 22, 2005. No longer available online.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "IMT" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) ED - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) ED - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Disintegration of the cities of the future. Violence, poverty. Hope through a new technology but problems with how to introduce it for the best results.

JF - Two Views of Wonder PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her Starshadows: Ten Stories (New York: Ace Books, 1977), 88-108.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Group" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) ED - Joseph Elder KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia from the perspective of the protagonist. It is possible to teleport anywhere in the world, but closeness and emotion are considered atavisms. It is only acceptable to love Us, not an individual. In the Group one feels the sensations of a couple having sex and the experiences and responses of those who are experiencing their actions.

JF - Eros in Orbit: A Collection of All New Science-Fiction Stories About Sex PB - Trident Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Penthouse 4.9 (May 1973): 80-82, 122, 124, 126, 128; in The Shape of Sex to Come. Ed. Douglas Hill (London: Pan Books, 1978), 12-29; in Beyond the Safe Zone: Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1986), 124-36; in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume 3: Beyond the Safe Zone (London: HarperCollins, 1994), 146-62; and in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Four: Trips: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2009), 14-28 with an author’s note on 13.

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L, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lone Warrior" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) ED - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) ED - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story begins with the death by torture of a member of the opposition to an authoritarian dystopia with his lover being forced to watch and continues with her systematic attempt to reconnect with the opposition movement and get revenge.

JF - Two Views of Wonder PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The National Pastime." Y1 - 1973 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violence with combat football.

JF - Nova PB - Walker CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -

U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 96-113. Rpt. in his The Star-Spangled Future (New York: Ace Books 1979), 171-97 with an "Introduction to The National Pastime" (169-70).

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DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed eutopia. The suffering of one child is necessary for the existence of a eutopia. See Sarah Pinsker, “The Ones Who Know Where They are Going.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 41.3 & 4 (494 & 495) (March-April 2017): 67-69 for a brief version giving the perspective of the child. Corey Doctorow’s Walkaway. New York: Tor, 2017 is clearly related. P. H. Lee’s “A House by the Sea.” Uncanny A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 24 (September 2018). https://uncannymagazine.com/article/a-house-by-the-sea/ is about the lives of the children after they are released from the basement and replaced by another child. Nora K. Jemisin’s,  “The One Who Stay and Fight.” In her How Long ‘Til Black Future Month (New York: Orbit, 2018), 1-13; rpt. Lightspeed Magazine, no. 116 (January 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-ones-who-stay-and-fight/ reflects the story’s title. Cynthia Gómez’s “The Ones Who Came Back to Heal.” Strange Horizons (July 17, 2023). http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-ones-who-come-back-to-heal/ concerns a trans person who had left but returns to try to help the child. A related story that connects the children in Omelas to the refugee crisis is Rene Denfeld, “The Ones Who Don’t Walk Away.” Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Susan DeFreitas (Portland, OR: Forest Avenue Press, 2021), 112-116. 

JF - New Dimensions PB - Nelson Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Wind’s Twelve Quarters: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 224-31; in Utopian Studies 2.1 & 2 (1992): 1-5; in The Secret History of Science Fiction. Ed. James Patrick Kelly and John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2009), 39-44; without the subtitle in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 33-38; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 33-38; and with the subtitle in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 1-7; with the subtitle in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 329-36; with the subtitle in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2016), 87-94; and without the subtitle in Futures and Fictions. Ed. Henriette Gunkel, Ayesha Hameed, and Simon O’Sullivan (London: Repeater Press, 2017), 379-88.  

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pity the Poor Outdated Man." Y1 - 1973 A1 - Philip Shofner ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. Future eutopian world where myths have been brought to life. One man is bored and uses grenades against peaceful unicorns.

JF - Nova PB - Walker and Co. CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -

U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 124-40.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Plenteous Seed Y1 - 1973 A1 - D[enise] N[atalie] Sims KW - Female author AB -

Revolt in a hierarchical dystopia.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rope of Glass" Y1 - 1973 A1 - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) ED - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) ED - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future society where having certain diseases is punishable by death.

JF - Two Views of Wonder PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

PLhS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Season of Anomy Y1 - 1973 A1 - Wole [Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde] Soyinka (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The first two chapters present a communal eutopia. Much of the rest of the book presents current reality as dystopia, but the eutopian Aiyéró provides the possibility of something better.

PB - Rex Collings CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, Eng.: Nelson, 1980.

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VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sorry Wrong Number Y1 - 1973 A1 - Margaret Simpson KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Near future regimented society. Everyone assigned a number. Those without numbers pose problems for the system.

PB - Andre Deutsch CY - London U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unreal People Y1 - 1973 A1 - Martin Siegel (1938-72) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe underground authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Lancer Books CY - New York U5 -

MoR

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Weariest River" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of immortality, which is for sale from the Company. Immortality had produced poverty and intense conflict between old and young. Sexually the young desire the old and vice versa. At an undefined point the old are placed in 'kraals' where they are essentially entombed but unable to die. The story is told from the viewpoint of the inventor of immortality, who stresses the guilt he feels.

JF - Future City PB - Trident Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Pocket Book, 1974), 94-134; and in his Caution! Inflammable! (New York: Bantam Books, 1976), 230-70.

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DLC, Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Welcome to the Standard Nightmare." Y1 - 1973 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The "standard nightmare" is Earth meeting superior aliens, in this case on an alien eutopian planet. The eutopia has all the usual elements of a society in balance and has no government. A man from Earth decides to become the ruler and then decides to invade Earth.

JF - Nova PB - Walker CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -

 Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Five (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 85-99. U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 11-24.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When Petals Fall" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Sydney J[oyce] Van Scyoc (1939-2023) ED - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) ED - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Society making itself poor by maintaining the aged against the hope of future medical advances.

JF - Two Views of Wonder PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

PLhS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Ahab’s Journey” Y1 - 1972 A1 - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a religious dystopia in which all the details of life are dictated by the high priests. The story seems to be about being able to overcome those things that are powerful enough to control us, specifically religion, love/sex, and alcohol, but at the end the protagonist still hopes to find the high priests. See also 1971 (2), 1973, 1974, 1975 (2), and 1978 Shears.

JF - Neggar Journeys into Nightmares. Stories PB - Nuclassics and Science Publishing Co CY - Washington, DC U3 -

Saggittarus [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Caught in the Organ Draft" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Transplant dystopia in which young, fit people are drafted ("the organ draft") to provide an organ to keep the elderly alive. This can be any organ and may result in death; if not, the person then becomes eligible to receive organs from others for as long as they live.

JF - and walk now gently through the fire and other science fiction stories PB - Chilton Books Co. CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

[Science Fiction Book Club ed.] (Philadelphia, PA: Chilton Books Co., 1972), 123-36. Rpt. in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Three: Something Wild is Loose: 1969-72 (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008), 368-80 with an author’s note on 367; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 375-84; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 375-84. 

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ecodeath Y1 - 1972 A1 - William Jon Watkins (b. 1942) A1 - E[ugene] V[incent] Snyder (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pollution dystopia.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

IaSU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Elouise and the Doctors of the Planet Pergamon" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A society in which equality is achieved by making everyone ill.

JF - Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. in her The Power of Time (London: Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1985), 125-41.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Il Pianeta come festival--The Planet as a Festival" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Ettore Sottsass Jr. (1917-2007) KW - Italian author AB -

Short, illustrated sketch of a world with no production problems. The cities have disappeared, and everyone is an artisan-artist.

JF - Casabella VL - no. 365 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Iron Dream Y1 - 1972 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

From an alternative history in which Hitler becomes an SF writer. This presents Hitler's novel Lord of the Swastika (1953) (Won Hugo 1954) and a scholarly afterword. The novel presents a far future earth where Nazi's struggle for power.

PB - Avon CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nobody's Home" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. The focus of the story is an extended family of eighteen adults living in a future world with a fairly low population. The main technological change is a matter transmitter that allows nearly instantaneous travel to any place on Earth, which means that only some are living together at any one time. The family described values high intelligence, and it is implied that this is the norm. Each person must contribute "tax labor" to the Earth community.

JF - New Dimensions II PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. in Women of Wonder. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage, 1974), 231-56; illus. Dennis Neal Smith in her The Zanzibar Cat ([Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House, 1983), 52-69; and in Women of Wonder: The Classic Years. Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 249-62. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "They Cope" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Dave [David John] Skal (1952-2024) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of sensory overload.

JF - Orbit PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York VL - 11 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Unseen Hand" Y1 - 1972 A1 - [Samuel Shepard] [Rogers] III (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A baboon/man from a future authoritarian dystopia in which brain implants control people travels into the past to find three brothers (two dead) to help overthrow the dystopia.

JF - The Unseen Hand and Other Plays PB - Bobbs-Merril CY - Indianapolis, IN U3 -

Sam Shepard [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Benefit, Necessity, and the Next Day” Y1 - 1971 A1 - Carl L[ee] Shears (1937-79) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story is a discussion between the President and a senior adviser, who is black, prior to the following law going into effect. “Any parent or parents, who are declared functionally or totally illiterate by a test administered by the Health, Welfare, and Education Department of the United States Government, without regard to race, color, or creed, will be placed in an education center for the purposes of bringing their reading and writing level up to the standards of the nation’s. Their children will be placed in an appropriate children’s home. If after a two-year period the parent or parents have not reached the necessary level, they will be sterilized and placed in an urban reservation for the mentally deficient for the rest of their lives. From that day forward, all rights as citizens will be forfeited. The parent or parents then become wards of the state” (22). The senior adviser believes that the law will mostly effect blacks. Another story in the same volume, “If There Is a Knock” (38-47) is about how the law affects poor blacks. See also 1971 Shears "That Day," 1973, 1974, 1975 (2), and 1978 Shears.

JF - Niggers and Po’ White Trash. Stories PB - Nuclassics and Science Publishing Co CY - Washington, DC U3 -

Saggittarus [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Book of Stier Y1 - 1971 A1 - Robin Sanborn AB -

While the novel ends in a dystopia, the text suggests a eutopia based on a new religion, peace, sex, and the flower-children emerging from Canada. Generational conflict led by an oppressive U.S. regime. U.S. absorbed by Canada. 

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Future" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Tim[othy Richard] Shadbolt (b. 1947) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia that says that in the future there will be free distribution of goods, which he calls "love shops"; communes; co-operatives; a New Zealand rock music revival; more pot smoking; a growth in underground media; activist farmers; radicals directly involved politically; a growth of political awareness among the people; a bi-cultural society; and the end of the war in Vietnam. 

JF - Bullshit & Jellybeans PB - Alister Taylor CY - Wellington, New Zealand N1 -

See also the author's untitled contribution to Ans Westra, Notes on the Country I Live In (Wellington, New Zealand: Alister Taylor, 1972), 9-12; and his Concrete Reality [Cover adds Poems]. Green Bay, Auckland, New Zealand: Republican Press, 1981 for related statements.

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VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Going" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of population control through voluntary suicide.

JF - Four Futures: Four Original Novellas of Science Fiction PB - Hawthorn Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Three: Something Wild is Loose: 1969-72 (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008), 106-55 with an author's note on 105-06.

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Merril, MoCoS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Little Dog's Day. A Novel Y1 - 1971 A1 - Jack Trevor Story (1917-91) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future authoritarian bureaucratic dystopia and an anti-bureaucratic movement.

PB - Allison & Busby CY - London U5 -

CaTU, InU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lorax Y1 - 1971 A1 - [Theodor Seuss] [Geisel] (1904-91) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Children’s picture book depicting the creation of an environmental dystopia through logging an area until no tree is left, and all the wildlife have fled. Terri Birkett wrote a response to defend logging, The Truax. illus. Orrin Lundgren Memphis, TN: Hardwood Forest Foundation, 1995, which was sponsored by the National Wood Flooring Manufacturers’ Association. http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/NDow/files/TRUAX1.pdf. A TV adaptation was aired on CBS February 14, 1972. A feature film directed by Chris Renaud (b. 1966) with a screenplay by Cinco Paul (b. 1964) and Ken Daurio (b. 1972) was released March 2, 2012. A musical version with music and lyrics by Charlie Fink (b. 1986) ran at the Old Vic in London from December 2, 2015, to January 16, 2016, returned in 2017, and has toured in the U.S.

PB - Random House CY - New York U2 -

Picture book illus. by the author

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Dr. Seuss [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Mnemone” Y1 - 1971 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future dystopia in which most words have been lost, and some people, called Mnemones, travel from place to place selling words.

JF - Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? PB - Doubleday & Co. CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 245-53.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Direction Home" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) ED - Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Drug dystopia in which psychedelics are used in all aspects of life.

JF - New Worlds Quarterly PB - Berkley Books CY - New York VL - 2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1972), 227-44; in his The Star-Spangled Future (New York: Ace Books 1979), 263-86 with an “Introduction to No Direction Home” (261-62), and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 663-66 with an editor’s note on 663. 

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Out There Y1 - 1971 A1 - Adrian [Pearl] Stoutenburg (1916-82) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult future tale in which children from a dystopian domed city experience nature for the first time and work together to protect it.

PB - Viking Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Second Trip" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian background where criminals have their personality wiped out and a new personality implanted.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 45.2 - 3 N1 -

Rpt. Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1971

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sliced Crosswise Only-on-Tuesday World" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which each person is assigned to one day and only one day and "sleeps" all the other days. See 1985 Farmer and 2016 Farmer and Adams for works that develop the basic idea.

JF - New Dimensions PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1972), 113-29; in The Grand Adventure: Masterworks of Science Fiction and Fantasy (New York: Berkley Books, 1984), 163-90; in The Classic Philip José Farmer 1964-1973 (New York: Crown, 1984), 130-45; and in The Philip José Farmer Centennial Collection. Ed. Michael Croteau (Np: Meteor House, 2018), 487-503.

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Merril, MoU-St, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Smith's Dream Y1 - 1971 A1 - C[hristian] K[arlson] Stead (b. 1932) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in New Zealand with the focus on one man's resistance to it. The second version includes the ending the author says he originally intended. In this ending the protagonist is killed, whereas the first ending is hopeful. The change takes place on page 140. Stead explains the change in "John Mulgan: A Question of Identity." In his In the Glass Case: Essays on New Zealand Literature (Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press/Oxford University Press, 1981), 87-88 [Originally published in Islands 25 (7.3) (April 1979): 286-88]. A film version was entitled Sleeping Dogs (1977) and was directed by Roger Donaldson (b. 1945) with the screenplay by Ian Mune (b. 1941) and Arthur Baysting.

PB - Longman Paul CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

With a different ending Auckland, New Zealand: Longman Paul, 1973. Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: New House Publishers, 1993. The change takes place on page 140. Stead explains the change in “John Mulgan: A Question of Identity.” In his In the Glass Case: Essays on New Zealand Literature (Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press/Oxford University Press, 1981), 87-88 [Originally published in Islands 25 (7.3) (April 1979): 286-88]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "That Day" Y1 - 1971 A1 - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story about the dystopia that is black/white relations in a small town in Georgia and the opposition of both to a young black man who has been admitted to a predominantly white university. At the end, the white police chief kills him. See also 1971 Shears, “Benefit, Necessity, and the Next Day,” 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 (2), and 1978 Shears. 

JF - Niggers and Po’ White Trash. Stories PB - Nuclassics and Science Publishing Co CY - Washington, DC U3 -

Saggittarus [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Time of Changes" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with an emphasis on group cohesion. Polite language does not include "I". No self-revealing. At birth bond brothers and sisters are chosen and more can be told to them. Sexual freedom except with bond brother or sister. Change brought about by a drug that opened people to each other.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 31.4 N1 -

Rpt. Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1971

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Time of the Great Death. A Novel Y1 - 1971 A1 - Claude M. Skinner (b. 1916) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A sleeper wakes novel in which a eutopia has developed after nuclear war, civil war, and disease has reduced the world population by three-quarters and a new mentality, called Humanism, has developed that values community and helping others over competition. The wakened sleeper cannot adjust and finds a woman who wants a strong, masterful man, which suggests that there are others who do not accept the new way of life. At the end of the novel, Earth has reverted to the old ways under a world-wide dictatorship.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Travels in Nihilon Y1 - 1971 A1 - Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on anarchism (nihilism).

PB - W. H. Allen CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Inside Y1 - 1971 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia with an emphasis on population growth, with large families living in huge buildings.

PB - Doubleday & Co. CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor, 2010 with a new “Preface” by the author (7-12). Part published in Galaxy Science Fiction as "The Throwbacks." 30.4 (August 1970): 26-54; "The World Outside." 30.6 (October/November 1970): 4-50, 192; "We Are Well Organized; An Episode--Urban Monad 116." 31.1 (December 1970): 38-69; and "All the Way Up, All the Way Down." 32.1 (July-August 1971): 140-60. Another part was published as "A Happy Day in 2381." Nova 1: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Harry Harrison (New York: Delacorte Press, 1970), 17-33; rpt. in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 121-35; in A Day in the Life. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Perennial Library, 1972), 100-17; 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), 289-304; in Science Fiction: The Future. Ed. Dick Allen. 2nd ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 160-71; and in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Two: To the Dark Star: 1962-69 (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 318-32 with an author's note on 317-18.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Black is Beautiful." Y1 - 1970 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. A future New York with both the city and the suburbs under domes. The city is black except for the white workers and tourists from the suburbs. From the perspective of a disaffected black teenager, the city appears a eutopia when the whites are gone on the weekends, and the city is certainly much better for blacks than at present, but it is shown to still have serious problems.

JF - The Year 2000: An Anthology PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Indians Won Y1 - 1970 A1 - Martin [William] Cruz Smith (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Alternative history in which an independent North American Indian nation occupies half of the area of the U.S.

PB - Belmont Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Severn House, 1982.

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L, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - King Strut Y1 - 1970 A1 - [Charles Sumner] Chuck Stone (1924-2014) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Black revolution presented positively but with substantial satire directed at the way the political system functions, particularly its favoritism and corruption. The novel focuses on a black politician, Hiram Elliott Quinault, possibly based on Adam Clayton Powell (1908-72), who rises to a position of seniority in the House of Representatives. His rise leads to the inevitable backlash from the established white politicians, who uses every means available to demean and diminish him. When a group of black nationalists declare the independence of Blackland in Mississippi from the U.S. and ask Quinault to be their President, he accepts, is expelled from Congress, and assassinated. In retaliation, the black nationalists kill twelve Congressmen and wounding others. 

PB - Bobbs-Merrill CY - Indianapolis, IN U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lost Continent." Y1 - 1970 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) ED - Anthony Cheetham KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire with Africa dominant and the U.S. degenerated due to extensive pollution.

JF - Science Against Man PB - Avon Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Macdonald Science Fiction, 1971), 9-56. Rpt. in his The Star-Spangled Future (New York: Ace Books, 1979), 335-401 with an "Introduction to The Lost Continent" (331-33).

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CNoSt, NLS, PSt, TxCM

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A More Perfect Union Y1 - 1970 A1 - Robert Stapp (1914-85) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The South seceded from the U.S. and in 1981 the Confederacy is a totalitarian dystopia in conflict with the United States.

PB - Harper's Magazine Press in Association with Harper and Row CY - New York U5 -

IaStU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Withering Away of Welfare" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Leonard Shifrin ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of the positive effects of automation with an Athenian style democracy with a diverse culture.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bug Jack Barron Y1 - 1969 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The protagonist is a TV personality with a show called "Bug Jack Barron" where he listens to people's complaints and calls the politicians or others involved and puts them on the spot. As a result he becomes very powerful. A focus of the novel is the choice between allowing a corporation to be run for profit to freeze and later revive people or to have it publicly available. Presents race relations in the future with Mississippi run by African Americans but with African Americans generally in inferior roles.

PB - Walker CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. [Book Club Edition] New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1969. Collector's Edition illus. Frank Kelly Freas with an "Introduction" by James Blaylock (vii-xiii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1991. U.K. ed. London: Macdonald, 1970. Shorter version first published in New Worlds Science Fiction, nos. 179 - 183 (February - October 1968): 4-12, 43-51; 28-30, 42-56; 13-22, 44-59; 20-33; 45-59.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Self-Destruction of the United States of America Y1 - 1969 A1 - Alan Seymour (b. 1927) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia describing an extremely violent race war in the United States that leads to its destruction.

PB - Souvenir Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Grove Press, 1971.

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DLC, NZ, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Islar: A Narrative of Lang III Y1 - 1969 A1 - Mark Saxton (1914-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel set in the time of the grandson of the protagonist of 1942 Wright. Primarily political intrigue brought about by internal and external enemies. See also 1979 and 1982 Saxton.

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA U2 -

The endpapers are a map of Islandia prepared by Samuel H. Bryant.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Teenocracy Y1 - 1969 A1 - Robert Shirley KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of teenagers ruling.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Teg's 1994; An Anticipation of the Near Future Y1 - 1969 A1 - Robert Theobald (1929-99) A1 - J[ean] M. Scott KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on ecology, personal growth, and interpersonal communication. Problems remain, and the author's say, "In our opinion, Teg's world would make a very poor Utopia for anybody" (x, 1972 ed.). See also 1968 Theobald and 1982 Theobald. In addition, Theobald published many other books outlining his proposals. See, in particular, his Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1963; Beyond Despair: Directions for America’s Third Century. Washington, DC: The New Republic Book Co., 1976; rev. as Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1981; An Alternative Future for America’s Third Century. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1976; and Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.

PB - [Theobald and Scott] CY - [Phoenix, AZ] N1 -

New ed. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1972.

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ISS, MnU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thrill City Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Jean Marie] [Stine] (b. 1945) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Erotic future SF with the emphasis on the sex rather than either the SF or the future.

PB - Essex House CY - North Hollywood, CA U3 -

Hank Stine [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wind in the Snottygobble Tree” Y1 - 1969 A1 - Jack Trevor Story (1917-91) KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a police state.

JF - New Worlds VL - Nos. 195 - 198 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The People Trap" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 34.6 N1 -

Rpt. in his The People Trap and other Pitfalls, Snares, Devices and Delusions, as Well as Two Sniggles and a Contrivance (New York: Dell, 1968), 7-26. and in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book Three (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 7-24; in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book Three (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 7-24; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 347-67 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Story of Operation Atlantis Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Werner K.] [Stiefel] (1921-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Outlines a libertarian eutopia. Gives credit to Ayn Rand (1905-82). For an article on Operation Atlantis, see http://shimajournal.org/issues/v10n2/e.-Simpson-Shima-v10n2.pdf

PB - Atlantis Publishing Co CY - Saugerties, NY U3 -

Warren K. Stevens [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. Includes an automated city with a mother complex.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 26.3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Liberated Future. Ed. Robert Hoskins (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1974), 139-58; 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), 62-78.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Time Machine That Never Got Past First Base: A Laugh--at the Future? Y1 - 1968 A1 - [March] [Laumer] (1923-2000) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor of boring people visiting boring futures.

PB - Opium Books CY - Kowloon, Hong Kong U2 -

Illus. Lau Shiu Fan

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Felix Severance [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - West of the Moon Y1 - 1968 A1 - Howard Simpson KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Voyage to a number of planets. Various eutopias and dystopias, including a world of Amazons and Pluto, which is the Greek Hell.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Agent of Chaos Y1 - 1967 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in the twenty-fourth century with all of the solar system inhabited. Small rebel group and another violent group that ultimately destroys the dictatorship.

PB - Belmont CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1972.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Beyond Y1 - 1967 A1 - Jean Sutton (1915-2003) A1 - Jeff[erson Howard] Sutton (1913-79) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia describing a prison planet for telepaths and others with unusual psychic capacities, but the society that exiles its paranormals is vaguely described in eutopian terms.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ersatz" Y1 - 1967 A1 - Henry Slesar (1927-2002) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A brief future war dystopia in which most civilians have been killed and most things, such as food, are now made from fake materials.

JF - 396-413 with an “Introduction” (396-99) by Ellison and an “Afterword” (402-03) by the Slesar PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Happy Breed" Y1 - 1967 A1 - John T[homas] Sladek (1937-2000) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a world without pain. The Therapeutic Environment Machines initially provide therapy, thus putting all therapists out of work, but gradually they come to control all aspects of life. They provided complete medical care, thus putting all doctors out of work. The only jobs were “Happiness Jobs--make-work invented by the Machines.” The Machines then regress everybody back to childhood. U.S. author who lived in the U.K. for about twenty years from 1966.

JF - Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" Y1 - 1967 A1 - Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on incest, which is the one thing that people on other planets find unacceptable. See the note at 1949 Sturgeon.

JF - Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. in his Case and the Dreamer (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1974), 52-102; and in The Nail and the Oracle. Volume XI. The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Ed. Paul Williams (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2007), 137-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Men in the Jungle Y1 - 1967 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of militarism.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - Night Walk Y1 - 1967 A1 - Bob [Robert] Shaw (1931-96) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Novel set on the Planet Emm Luther, a strict Lutheran dystopia. Mostly adventure and intrigue. 

PB - Banner CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz. Rpt. London: Corgi, 1977; and London: VGSF, 1987.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Time-Hoppers Y1 - 1967 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

MoU-St, NjP

ER - TY - ABST T1 - To Open the Sky Y1 - 1967 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. Mass hysteria, cults, and fads in the third millennium.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1984. Originally published in Galaxy Magazine as "Blue Fire." 23.5 (June 1965): 105-30; "The Warriors of Light." 24.2 (December 1965): 99-134; "Where the Changed Ones Go." [Journal title changed back to] Galaxy Science Fiction 24.3 (February 1966): 83-121; "Lazarus Comes Forth." 24.4 (April 1966): 82-113; and "Open the Sky." 24.5 (June 1966): 165-94.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Why Call Them Back from Heaven? Y1 - 1967 A1 - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia produced by potential immortality, which is achieved by freezing and then thawing. The society is extremely safety oriented and Puritanical. People are desperate to be able to accumulate enough wealth to be well-off in the future. The world is effectively run by the Forever Center that oversees the system, but a plot is discovered to identify the wealthiest of those frozen, not thaw them, and steal their money..

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1967.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A World Beyond Y1 - 1967 A1 - George E[rnest] Shirley (1898-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Simple life eutopia taken over by Communists from the U.S.S.R., which produces a dystopia. In the eutopia there is no money, and the economy is based on barter. Rape results in jail for life.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Enlightened Ones Beyond the Icebergs Y1 - 1966 A1 - Reuben Sam Shodall (b. 1889) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Those who left when Atlantis, which is depicted as an earthly paradise where nature provided, became corrupt and relocated in the Far North. The novel includes histories of Atlantis, the first settlement in the north, and a description of the eutopian society established there, including a brief period of internal disagreement. Men appear to hold all the political positions, but women are engineers and appear to be equally educated.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Return of Arthur Y1 - 1966 A1 - Martyn Skinner (1906-93) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Epic poem most of which is concerned with the dystopia of the modern age, particularly that of Communism. The work ends though with the reestablishment of the best of the past and a eutopia.

PB - Chapman and Hall CY - London N1 -

Parts originally published as Merlin or the Return of Arthur. A Satiric Epic. Part One. London: Frederick Muller, 1951; The Return of Arthur. A Poem of the Future. London: Chapman & Hall, 1955; and The Return of Arthur. A Poem of the Future. Part Two. London: Chapman & Hall, 1959. The utopia is only found in the 1966 version.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tenth Victim Y1 - 1966 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of legal hunts of humans by other humans. See also 1958 and 1960 Sheckley. His Hunter/Victim. New York: New American Library, 1987 is a prequel, and his Victim Prime. New York: New American Library, 1987 is a sequel. The film Le Decima Vittima (1965) directed by Elio Petri (1929-82) with a screenplay by Tonino Guerra (1920-2012) Giorgio Salvioni (d. 1994), Ennio Flaiano (1910-72), and Petri is based on “The Seventh Victim” and this is the novelization of the film.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Mayflower, 1966. Rpt. London: Methuen, 1987. Originated as “The Seventh Victim” Galaxy Science Fiction 6.1 (April 1953): 38-51. Story rpt. in Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publishing Co., 1972), 300-11; in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book One (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 109-22; in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 61-72; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 14-29 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).

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CU-Riv, Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cynia: An Original Utopia" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Gary G. Shriver KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Individualist anarchist eutopia.

PB - University of Wyoming CY - Laramie, Wyoming ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia: A Vision and an Exercise" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Dorothy Samuel KW - Female author AB -

Agrarian eutopia described as “an anarchy of self-disciplined adults living in loving cooperation. Almost no city larger than 50,000. Parks and gardens everywhere. Although most art is individual and local, there are some large buildings for concerts and similar activities, and the buildings are also used as libraries. Living a more natural life and eating better food has eliminated obesity and improved health. There is no longer a need for a medical profession, but there are healers. No money with goods distributed without charge. Privacy is valued. Only beneficial technology. Family-centered child-rearing. 

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KU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Stars Came Down Y1 - 1964 A1 - [Joseph Laurence] [Morrissey] (1905-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. A man returns to Earth five thousand years after he left and finds the people far advanced beyond his expectations. No governments. Extremely long-lived (600 is middle age); no children to keep control over population growth. No wild animals; all are tame. Cities abandoned; all Earth is inhabitable and people live in small groups or alone.

PB - World Distributors CY - London U3 -

Richard Saxon [pseud.]

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Leeds

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Time of the Great Freeze Y1 - 1964 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult climate change dystopia in which, when a thaw begins, people who had been living deep in the ice, search for other communities hoping to reunify them.

PB - Holt, Rinehart and Winston CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "1974: An Orwellian Fantasy" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Barbara Stephens KW - Female author AB -

Short sketch of a future dystopia especially concerned with suppressing Lesbians.

JF - Ladder (San Francisco, CA) ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Better World Y1 - 1963 A1 - Karl Streichl KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia with a stress on equality, physical fitness, and education. Technologically advanced.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Day of Truce" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Suburbs have become a war of strongholds versus the punks.

JF - Galaxy Magazine VL - 21.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 111-34; and in Grotto of the Dancing Bear and Other Stories. The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak, Volume Four. New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2016. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Physician to the Universe” Y1 - 1963 A1 - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which being sick is a criminal offense and everyone must have a physical checkup every six months, bathe regularly, take daily exercise, and eat only healthy food.

JF - Fantastic Stories of Imagination (Chicago, IL) VL - 12.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Strange Fantasy (Flushing, NY), no. 13 (Fall 1970): 4-;; in Physician to the Universe. The Collected Stories of Clifford D. Simak Volume II (Seattle, WA: Darkside Press, 2006), 219-51; and in The Ghost of a Model T and Other Stories: The Complete Short Stories of Clifford D. Simak Volume Three (New York: Open Road, 2015), 51-98.

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Merrl, PSt, PTU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Programmed People" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Jack [John Michael] Sharkey (1931-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. Computer perfection with controls designed to keep the population steady. A revolt succeeds.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 37.6 - 7 N1 -

Repub. as Ultimatum in 2050 A.D. New York: Ace Books, 1965. Rpt. as The Programmed People. Medford, OR: Armchair Books & Music, 2010.

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Repub. as Ultimatum in 2050 A.D. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To See the Invisible Man" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

1963 Silverberg, Robert (b. 1935). “To See the Invisible Man.” Worlds of Tomorrow 1.1 (April 1963): 153-62. Rpt. in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 53-64; in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume 5: Ringing the Changes (London: HarperCollins, 1997), 13-27; and in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Two: To the Dark Star: 1962-69. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 16-27 with an author’s note on 15-16. L, Merril, PSt

A society in which punishment is through public invisibility with a brand on the forehead to identify the person. The story focuses on a man who is sentenced to a during which no one will notice or respond to him.

JF - Worlds of Tomorrow VL - 1.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 53-64; in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume 5: Ringing the Changes (London: HarperCollins, 1997), 13-27; in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Two: To the Dark Star: 1962-69 (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 16-27 with an author's note on 15-16; and in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 352-62.

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DLC, L, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tourmaline Y1 - 1963 A1 - [Julian] Randolph Stow (1935-2010) KW - Australian author AB -

Dystopia of a post-nuclear war Australian town.

PB - Macdonald CY - London N1 -

Rpt. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queenslan Press, 2002. Rpt. with the subtitle A Novel. London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1983; and London: Minerva, 1991. U.S. ed. with the subtitle A Novel. New York: Taplinger, 1983. A draft of chapter 1 was originally published as “Tourmaline.” Meanjin, no. 85 (20.2) (July 1961): 133-38.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Good Morning! This Is the Future” Y1 - 1962 A1 - Henry Slesar (1927-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief vignettes of three men who had had themselves frozen being awakened into a dystopia worse than what they had been trying to escape.

JF - Rogue N1 -

Rpt. in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 118-23. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Journey Beyond Tomorrow Y1 - 1962 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Machine dominated dystopia contrasted with a simple life eutopia.

PB - Signet CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Dimensions of Sheckley: The Selected Novels of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2002), 153-265. Abr. as "Journey of Joenes." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 23.4 - 5 (October - November 1962): 71-128, 71-127.

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Abr. as "Journey of Joenes."

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Old Man" Y1 - 1962 A1 - Henry Slesar (1927-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

“The Old Man” is a computer that rules a country. The human rulers know it is a computer, but no one else does, and they resent the limitations on their freedom and that all electric power goes to power the computer.

JF - The Diner’s Club Magazine VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 248-52.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perfect Planet Y1 - 1962 A1 - Evelyn E. Smith (1927-2000) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Artemis was an isolated planet that served as a health resort but was cut off during Earth’s wars. Earth has become prudish, and the people are overweight and physically weak. A man and a woman from Earth arrive on Artemis, and they find a society in which the brochures from the past are infallible, sacred texts. The people are required by law to keep at their ideal weight and wear few clothes, shocking the overdressed and overweight Earthlings. A continuing sub-theme is that the women treat the men as the “superior sex” while being in complete control. 

PB - Avalon CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Lancer, 1963.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Alpha Ralpha Boulevard" Y1 - 1961 A1 - [Paul Myron Anthony] [Linebarger] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future that rejects organized perfection in the name of freedom, such as the freedom to get sick and die, to be injured, or to be unhappy, finds that the new society has as many difficulties as the old one.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 20.6 (121) N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (U.K.), second series 2.11 (October 1961): 86-112; in his you will never be the same (Evanston, IL: Regency Books, 1963), 115-42; in The Best of Cordwainer Smith (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1975), 259-86; in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction. Ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin and Brian Attebery. Karen Joy Fowler, Consultant (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 49-73; and in The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith [pseud.]. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1993), 375-99.

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Cordwainer Smith [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Man Who Had No Brains" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Jeff[erson Howard] Sutton (1913-79) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future authoritarian dystopia based on IQ. Atomic research outlawed. Telepathy known but attacked. Story of a successful revolt.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 35.8 - 9 N1 -

Repub. as The Atom Conspiracy. New York: Avalon Books, 1963.

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Repub. as The Atom Conspiracy.

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NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Mark Gable Foundation" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Leo Szilard (1898-1964) KW - English author KW - German author KW - Hungarian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which freezing oneself in order to be able to experience the future becomes a fad and threatens to destroy civilization.

JF - The Voice of the Dolphin and Other Stories PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York N1 -

Exp. ed. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), 117-30. With an Introduction by Barton J. Bernstein (3-43, 175-82) and an "Afterword" by Helen Weiss (171-72). This story was written in 1948, and a copy of that version exists among Szilard's papers at the University of California, San Diego, but there is no evidence of earlier publication.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Voice of the Dolphins" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Leo Szilard (1898-1964) KW - English author KW - German author KW - Hungarian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A story with eutopian elements in which scientists discover how to communicate with dolphins, who are immensely more intelligent than humans. An institute is founded that uses the dolphin's ideas, which eliminates hunger, reduce population growth, and ultimately ends the possibility of nuclear war.

JF - The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stores PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York N1 -

Exp. ed. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), 47-100. With an Introduction by Barton J. Bernstein (3-43, 175-82) and an "Afterword" by Helen Weiss (171-72).

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Day in the Suburbs" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Evelyn E. Smith (1927-2000) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of future violence with war among the women living in different styles of housing in the suburbs, with a truce at night so that the men know nothing about the violence.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 19.3 (112) U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Girls and Nugent Miller” Y1 - 1960 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The only male survivor of an atomic war, a mild-manner pacifist, discovers some young women led an older woman who tries to kill him. He loses his pacifism.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 18.3 (106) N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Three (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 227-37. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Omega" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a prison planet where there is a religion of evil, much violence, and one succeeds through murder. This is contrasted with a eutopian earth that is ineffectual. Includes an early version of his human hunt. See 1958 and 1966 Sheckley.

JF - Amazing Science Fiction Stories VL - 34.8 - 9 N1 -

Repub. as The Status Civilization. New York: New American Library, 1960. Rpt. New York: Dell, 1968. UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1976; rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1979.

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Repub. as The Status Civilization.

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MoU-St, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Venus Plus X Y1 - 1960 A1 - Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Hermaphrodite eutopia. Each individual is created with both sexes. Small, isolated community of 800. Technology and an emphasis on change and forward movement. 

PB - Pyramid CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976 with an “Introduction” (v-xxi) by Paul Williams; and New York: Carroll & Graf, 1988. UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1969. Also published in New Worlds Science Fiction 34.102 – 05 (January – April 1961): 4-46; 90-126; 80-122, 124-25; 84-118, 120-23 with a “Postscript” (123-24). 

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Merril, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Adrift at the Policy Level" Y1 - 1959 A1 - [Horace] Chan[dler] Davis (b. 1926) ED - Willis E. McNelly ED - Leon [Eugene] Stover (1929-2006) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia.

JF - Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology PB - Goodyear Publishing CY - Pacific Palisades, CA N1 -

Rpt. in It Walks in Beauty: Selected Prose of Chandler Davis. Ed. Josh Lukin (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2010), 167-93. This is the author's preferred version. Originally published in a different version in Star Science Fiction Stories No. 5. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.], (New York: Ballantine Books, 1959), 66-85.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - False Coin. A Novel Y1 - 1959 A1 - Harvey Swados (1920-72) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Novel set in an intentional community, called Harmony Farm, which is designed to provide artists a space to together create great art that is accessible to a mass public. The usual conflicts among individuals ensure failure.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "World of Heart's Desire" Y1 - 1959 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In a post-nuclear war world, the eutopia becomes normal pre-war family life, which can only be experienced as fantasy.

JF - Playboy N1 -

Rpt. as "The Store of the Worlds." In his Store of Infinity (New York: Bantam Books, 1960), 104-10; in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 111-17; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 505-10.

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Rpt. as "The Store of the Worlds."

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Birthright." Y1 - 1958 A1 - Margaret [Neeley] St. Clair (1911-95) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the growing tendency to provide medical treatment in the most extreme cases. The story is about a baby needing heart surgery to survive who already needs regular insulin shots and who has significant visual problems and will be deaf at a young age.

JF - Fantastic Universe VL - 9.4 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Examination Day" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Henry Slesar (1927-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief dystopia. At age twelve each child takes an intelligence exam. Those with very low-level results are executed.

JF - Playboy N1 -

Rpt. in The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1966), 314-19; in A Legend in his own Lunchbox: English Workshop. Ed. Peter Forrestal and Jo-Anne Reid (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Nelson, 1970), 92-96; and in Weird Worlds, no. 4 (1980): 6-.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Immortality, Inc Y1 - 1958 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Suicide Act of 2102 in which a person joins a game as the Hunted and tries to elude professional killers. For different versions of the same theme, see 1960 and 1966 Sheckley. 

PB - Avalon CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1959; and in Dimensions of Sheckley: The Selected Novels of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2002), 17-151. Short version as "Time Killer." Galaxy Magazine 16.6 - 17.3 (October 1958 - February 1959): 4-46, 94-137; 104-41, 156-94. Another short version as Immortality Delivered. New York: Avalon, 1959. 

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Short versions as "Time Killer" and Immortality Delivered.

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KyU, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Invaders from Earth Y1 - 1958 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of capitalism and public relations in which a plan is hatched to destroy a world and its people for profit.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Invaders from Earth was published in a shorter version as "We the Marauders." Science Fiction Quarterly 2 (February 1958): 8-70, which was rpt. in A Pair From Space (New York: Belmont Books, [1965]), 5-86.

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Published in a shorter version as "We the Marauders." 

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CSt, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Minimum Man" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background of the story is an overpopulation dystopia desperate for suitable planets to colonize. The story is about a program to test planets by sending incompetent, accident prone explorers to test them; if they survive, anyone can.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 16.2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 71-101; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 463-88.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Alien Night" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which immortality was available in twenty-five year increments with aliens experimenting on humans and multiple worlds. The blurb on the first page after the cover includes what could be a definition of a flawed utopia: “Utopia was no longer a beautiful dream but a horrifying reality. Perfection--pure, absolute and unchanging--was slowly mummifying the human race and the world had become a monstrous still life.”

JF - Science Fiction Adventures VL - 1.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Get Out of My Sky: Three Short Novels of Science Fiction. Ed. Leo Margulies (Greenwich, CT: Crest Book/Fawcett Publications), 1960), 129-176.

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Illus. [Robert] Engle.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - On the Beach Y1 - 1957 A1 - Nevil Shute [Norway] (1899-1960) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Most of the world has been destroyed in a nuclear war, and Australians are waiting for the radiation to reach them.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Pan, 1966. Australian ed. Melbourne, VIC: Heinemann, 1957. There was a 1959 film directed by Stanley Kramer (1913-2001) and a 2000 TV remake directed by Russell Mulachy (b. 1953).

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Nevil Shute [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future Took Us Y1 - 1957 A1 - [David Storr] [Unwin] (1918-2010) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Children's dystopia. Destroyed future world dominated by religion with an underground city ruled by mathematicians trying to take over.

PB - The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Puffin, 1962.

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David Severn [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Language of Love" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The setting of the story is a future eutopian earth in which the entire landscape is carefully tended, it rains as needed in the middle of the night, and all animals are in zoos. The story is about an inarticulate young man learning the rational language of love of extinct aliens and its effects.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 14.1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 369-80; in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 375-84; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 253-65 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Master of Life and Death Y1 - 1957 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

KPT

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Morning After" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth is a flawed utopia in which no one has to work and most things like food and entertainment is provided by politicians as part of their ongoing campaigns for election or re-election. People, though, are bored and the birth rate is going down while the suicide rate is going up.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine VL - 15.1 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 259-78. 

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Illus. Bowman

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sea People. A Fantasy Y1 - 1957 A1 - Julius C. Sizemore A1 - Wilkie G. Sizemore KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Vague and generally conservative eutopia stressing marriage and family life called Aquaria under the sea peopled by Americans of varied social and economic backgrounds. Telepathic. They are mutations who can live under water, but there are questions about what characteristics the future generation might have. Much of the novel focuses on the people drawn to Aquaria and why they choose it.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication Y1 - 1957 A1 - John Steinbeck (1902-68) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Wide ranging political satire. France reestablishes the monarchy, and the king takes his position seriously so that he has to be deposed.

PB - Viking Press CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Heinemann, 1957. Viking ed. rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1977.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Woman's World" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of women dominating men.

JF - Imagination VL - 8.3 (55) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “World of the Future 2. A Woman of the World” Y1 - 1957 A1 - [Judith (Josephine Juliet Grossman)] [Merril] (1923-97) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The second of two stories regarding the dystopia that would develop after an atomic war. In this story the “civilized” woman of the future learns that survival means finding the strongest man. See also 1957 Cole. 

JF - Venture Science Fiction VL - 1.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Venture Science Fiction (British Edition), no. 1 (September 1963): 83-89. 

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Rose Sharon [pseud.]

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C, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “2066: Election Day” Y1 - 1956 A1 - Michael [Joseph] Shaara [Jr.] (1928-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In the future, the President of the United States is chosen through a battery of tests supervised by a computer. Anyone can take the tests. This has resulted in world peace and prosperity. The story is about when the computer no one is qualified.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 58.4 U2 -

Illus. [Frank Kelly] Freas (1922-2005)

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Consumership" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Margaret [Neeley] St. Clair (1911-95) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which children are taught to be consumers.

JF - Original Science Fiction Stories VL - 7.2 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crossroads to Nowhere Y1 - 1956 A1 - [Delbert] Raymond Stark (1919-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two societies develop after a future war. One is anarchist with social pressure ("the silence") as a means of social control. Most people are settled but Wastelanders are nomadic. The other is an urban authoritarian dystopia with technology but also with shortages.

PB - Ward, Lock & Co CY - London U5 -

DLC, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Kazoo Y1 - 1956 A1 - John Schneider (1909-64) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on American presidential elections, which are run by ad men rather than politicians. The novel follows a specific future election.

PB - Rinehart CY - New York U5 -

PSt, TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jackpot" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Explorers of space hoping to find something that will make them a lot of money find a galactic university that teaches everything, beginning with honesty and honor, which leads most of the crew to want to share the knowledge with everyone.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 12.6 N1 -

Rpt. in Grotto of the Dancing Bear and Other Stories. The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak, Volume Four. New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2016. EBook. 

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Illus. [Virgil] Finlay. 

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love Incorporated" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Earth, exhausted of its natural resources, is a vacation planet selling true love (by hypnotizing the women), vicarious violence, and sexual perversion.

JF - Playboy VL - 3.9 N1 -

Rpt. as "Pilgrimage to Earth." Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961), 209-20; U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961), 209-20; in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 7-18; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 347-56.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Native Problem" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous story which begins on a future earth that is a dystopia of conformity.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 13.2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 279-99; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 357-74; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 145-67 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Skills of Xanadu" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Xanadu is a eutopia at once primitive and technological, with the technology allowing a natural way of life. See the note at 1949 Sturgeon.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 12.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Golden Helix (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1979), 166-90; in his To Here and the Easel (London: Panther, 1975), 68-98; and in And Now the News. . . Volume 9. The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Ed. Paul Williams (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2003), 51-79.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Worlds Without End” Y1 - 1956 A1 - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in a future run by a number of guilds, one of which sells long term dreams with people then waking up hundreds of years in their future. Another guild has taken control of the dreams so that the people get different dreams than the one’s they chose, dreams that the guild hopes to use to its advantage.

JF - Future Science Fiction VL - no. 31 N1 -

Rpt. in New Folks Home and Other Stories. The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak, Volume 6. New York: Open Road Media, 2016. EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Age of the Tail Y1 - 1955 A1 - H[arry] Allen [Wolfgang] Smith (1907-76) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor. People grow tails and this changes personal relations and social structures.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA U2 -

Illus. Leo Hershfield

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Birthright" Y1 - 1955 A1 - April Smith KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia of a beautiful planet that has never experienced problems, where the people work when and as they choose, where the children are raised with love to be independent. While there is a council, there is very little government.

JF - If: Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 5.5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Blond Kid" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Herb Sutherland KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the revival of National Socialism as a future religion worshipping Hitler.

JF - A.D. 2500: The Observer Prize Stories 1954 PB - William Heinemann, 1955 CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Freedom Charter. Adopted at The Congress of the People. Klipstown, SA, on 26 June 1955" Y1 - 1955 ED - John Suckling ED - Landeg White KW - South African author AB -

A political program that is a vision of South Africa after apartheid.

JF - After Apartheid: Renewal of the South African Economy PB - The Centre for Southern African Studies, University of York in Association with James Currey [London] and Africa World Press [Trenton, NJ] CY - Heslington, York, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Granny Won't Knit" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of extreme privacy. Children raised in crèches and sent to patriarchal, authoritarian families (one boy and one girl each). Some contrast to a eutopia of openness. 

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 8.2 N1 -

Rpt. in All About the Future. Ed. Martin Greenburg (New York: Gnome Press, 1955), 161-214; and in Bright Segment. Volume VIII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Ed. Paul Williams (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2002), 115-74.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mistress of Viridis" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Margaret [Neeley] St. Clair (1911-95) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Class based authoritarian dystopia primarily as background to a science-out-of-control story.

JF - Universe Science Fiction VL - no. 10 N1 -

Repub. as The Green Queen. New York: Ace Books, 1956. Ace Double bound with Thomas Calvert McClary, Three Thousand Years (1954).

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Repub. as The Green Queen.

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Illus. Lawrence [Sterne Stevens] (1886-1960)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Point Ultimate Y1 - 1955 A1 - [Gerald Allan] [Sohl] [Sr.] (1913-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future America is conquered by Communists, creating an authoritarian dystopia. Much of the novel is about the revolt against it.

PB - Rinehart & Co CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1959.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Private Volcano: A Modern Novel of Science and Imagination Y1 - 1955 A1 - Lance[lot de Giberne] Sieveking (1896-1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An abundance of gold brings misery followed by prosperity and world peace.

PB - Ward, Lock CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Ticket to Tranai" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia is a supposed eutopia because there are no laws. But all women are kept in stasis, taxation is by robbery, divorce is by murder, and governmental change is by assassination.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 11.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his Citizen in Space (New York: Ballantine Books, 1955), 108-47; in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book One (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 241-77; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 251-82.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Moon Died Y1 - 1955 A1 - [Ivan] [Roe] KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. World Technocracy is a world government that governs through six scientific committees. The belief that it is a utopia meant that little new was approved. There is no central government. Believe only in the useful and live only in the present. Music only for babies and the "unsound". Servants for the upper classes all had genetic defects and were not educated.

PB - Ward, Lock CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Brown, Watson, [1963].

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Richard Savage [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Academy": Y1 - 1954 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a society organized around Sanity Meters. The Academy provides drug induced dreams as an alternative to psychosurgery.

JF - If (Buffalo, NY) VL - 4 N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 143-64.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Conquered Place Y1 - 1954 A1 - Robert Shafer (b. 1920) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia in which the US is occupied by an enemy.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as The Naked and the Damned. New York: Popular, 1955.

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Rpt. as The Naked and the Damned. New York: Popular, 1955.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "DP" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Arthur Dekker Savage KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Flaws of government-provided perfection.

JF - If: Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 4.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hail to the Chief" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Sam Sackett KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia as seen through the eyes of a man who intends to kill its head so that democracy can be reestablished.

JF - Future Science Fiction VL - 5.1 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Laminated Woman" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Evelyn E. Smith (1927-2000) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire in which women regularly change their skin and hair color and body shape.

JF - Fantastic Universe VL - 2.5 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Rations of Tantalus" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Margaret [Neeley] St. Clair (1911-95) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An apparently eutopian society of near immortals that is controlled through the pills everyone takes daily, one of which controls their moods.

JF - Fantastic Universe VL - 2.1 N1 -

Rpt. as “The Rages.” In her Three Worlds of Futurity (New York: Ace, 1964), 76-113. Ace Double bound with her Message from the Eocene (1964). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Skulking Permit" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. An agrarian eutopia wants to be civilized so they appoint a criminal. He fails.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 9.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his Citizen in Space (New York: Ballantine Books, 1955), 154-80; in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book One (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 285-310; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 181-202.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Full Moon at Sweatenham. A Nightmare Y1 - 1953 A1 - J[ohn] K[eith] Stanford (1892-1971) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous dystopia. A Bookmakers' government was elected because they were the only ones in all of the U.K. with money after the previous governments collapsed.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London U2 -

Illus. V. H. Drummond

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - House of Entropy Y1 - 1953 A1 - [Herbert James] [Campbell] (1925-1983) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which an entire planet's population is controlled by a gigantic "brain" or computer.

PB - Panther CY - London U3 -

Roy Sheldon [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Wet Y1 - 1953 A1 - Nevil Shute [Norway] (1899-1960) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist eutopia. Future of the British Commonwealth. In a note the author says that he tried to imagine the Commonwealth in thirty years. Following an economic crash in the 1970s, in the 1980s Britain is poor, becoming depopulated, and socialist. Australia, Canada, and New Zealand are rich, growing, and capitalist. Socialism is described as appropriate to British conditions, but conservatives had left the country in large numbers and added to the growth of the Commonwealth countries.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U3 -

Nevil Shute [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Touch of Your Hand" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Simple, small-town eutopia. 

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 6.6 N1 -

Rpt. in his A Touch of Strange (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958), 84-127; in his Alien Cargo (New York: Bluejay, 1984); 191-226; and in A Saucer of Loneliness. Volume VII: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Ed. Paul Williams (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2000), 15-60. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Transposed Man" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Dwight V[reeland] Swain (1913-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. Human beings are the flaw in robot-like perfection.

JF - Thrilling Wonder Stories VL - 43.1 N1 -

Repub. New York: Ace Books, 1955. UK ed. London: Panther, 1957.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Watchbird" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A machine designed to identify murderers before they act is unable to make distinctions and kills anybody or anything that contemplates killing.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 5.5 N1 -

Rpt. in his Notions Unlimited (New York: Bantam Books, 1960), 27-46; in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 221-42; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 73-96 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi). Rpt. separately as Watchbird. Eugene, OR: Pulphouse, 1990.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Best Policy" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Phyllis Sterling Smith KW - Female author AB -

Humor and satire. Martians, who cannot tell a falsehood, visit Earth, and are not believed when they offer the science of government, which they feel Earth needs more than anything else, and other advances.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 26.3 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - City Y1 - 1952 A1 - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pastoral, pacifist dogs pass down oral legends of a possibly mythical Man. In these legends, technology has ended city life and almost everyone has moved to the country. Cities become tourist attractions but not places to live.

PB - Gnome Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, [1958]; rpt. New York: Ace Books, [1967]. Stories originally published in Astounding Science-Fiction as “City.” 33.3 (May 1944): 136-57. U.K. ed. Astounding Science-Fiction (August 1944): 43-55; Rpt. in The Ghost of a Model T and Other Stories: The Complete Short Stories of Clifford D. Simak Volume Three. New York: Open Road, 2015. EBook; “Huddling Place” 33.5 (July 1944): 133-49; “Census” 34.1 (September 1944): 6-28; “Desertion” 34.3 (November 1944): 64-74; “Paradise” 37.4 (June 1946): 46-65; “Hobbies” 38.3 (November 1946): 49-77; and “Aesop” 40.4 (December 1947): 7-31; plus “The Simple Way” originally published as “The Trouble with Ants.” Fantastic Adventures 13.1 (January 1951): 48-63; rpt. Fantastic 15.6 (July 1966): 46-65. The book version includes notes on each of the eight tales. Later Simak wrote an additional story in the City series, “Epilog.” Astounding: The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology. Ed. Harry Harrison (New York: Random House. 1973), 259-74.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cost of Living" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. People go into debt for consumer goods and many sign over their children's, grandchildren's, etc. earnings for their lifetime to a credit agency.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 5.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his Untouched by Human Hands (New York: Ballantine Books, 1954), 12-23; in The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction. An Anthology. Ed. , Brian W[ilson]. Aldiss and Sam Lundwall (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1986), 88-97; and in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book One (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 17-26.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Death of Metal Y1 - 1952 A1 - [William] Donald Suddaby (1900-64) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The disappearance of all metal brings, after a period of disruption and difficulty, a return to a simpler and better life.

PB - Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press CY - London U2 -

Illus. William Stobbs.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Smashed World Y1 - 1952 A1 - Henry J. Slater (1879-1963) KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. An apparent future eutopia populated by reincarnated greats from the past becomes dystopian as they struggle for power.

PB - Jarrolds CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sound of His Horn Y1 - 1952 A1 - [John William] [Wall] (1910-89) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the success of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and National Socialism one hundred and two years into the Reich. Breeding humans for blood sport.

PB - Peter Davies CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1960, with an “Introduction by Kingsley Amis (5-12); in his The Sound of His Horn and The King of the Lake (Horam, East Sussex, Eng.: Tartarus Press, 1999), 1-102 with a biographical “Introduction” by an unidentified author (vii-xii); and in The Sarban Omnibus (Np: Blackmask, 2008), 117-214, with “Forward” by Kingsley Amis (119-24).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Terra Australis" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Douglas [Alexander] Stewart (1913-85) ED - George Mackaness KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A poem in which the Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernandez de Quiros (1563?-1615) meets the utopian socialist William Lane (1861-1917), Quiros seeking utopia in the West and Lane in the East.

JF - An Anthology of Australian Verse PB - Angus and Robertson CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Also in his Sun Orchids and Other Poems (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1952), 37-40. Rpt. in his Collected Poems 1936-1967 (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1967), 168-72.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Age of Prophecy" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Margaret [Neeley] St. Clair (1911-95) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of opposition to science and scientists.

JF - Future Science Fiction Combined with Science Fiction Stories VL - 1.6 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Farfetched Fables" Y1 - 1951 A1 - [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Six fables ranging in time from the contemporary to the far future. A number are satires on utopian aspirations, with satires on diet, genetics, and education, among other topics.

JF - Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables, & Shakes Versus Shav PB - Constable CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1974), 7: 377-466. The first fable was originally published in German translation as “Phantastiche Fabel.” Neue Schweizer Rundschau (March 1950).  See “Preface.” The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1974), 7: 381-428. Rpt. as “Farfetched Fables (1951).” In his The Complete Prefaces. Volume 3: 1930-1950. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1997), 494-531. 

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The first fable was originally published in German translation as “Phantastiche Fabel.” Neue Schweizer Rundschau (March 1950). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Story" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Alexander Samuelson KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which an overly rational society destroys fiction.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 24.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2,000 Years On Y1 - 1950 A1 - [John Francis Russell] [Fearn] (1908-60) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A man is resurrected in the future, and he is told he owns the world, which is being administered by an elite. The man sides with the non-elite.

PB - Scion CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Commonweal of Sitnalta: The Adventures of Phineas Smith in Another Dimension" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Mulford Q[uickert] Sibley (1912-89) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialist eutopia.

PB - Unpub. Ms N1 -

Unpub. Ms

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Enemy Had It Too: A Play in Three Acts Y1 - 1950 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopian play with elements of farce. A biological agent is loosed and devastates the world. The survivors include those who degenerate into primitive tribal warfare, a few survivors who had been protected from the pandemic/plague, and a group returning from Mars, who bring Martians with them who will rejuvenate the Earth. Mars had once had a great civilization, but Martians now live in tunnels.

PB - Viking Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Micro Men Y1 - 1950 A1 - [John Francis Russell] [Fearn] (1908-60) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. A scientist invents a ray that can make people very small or very large, and it is used by others to create and control "micro men".

PB - Scion Press CY - London U3 -

Vargo Statten [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Out of Tomorrow" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Vivian Shirley KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Welfare through voluntary slavery. Individuality thought of as negative, considered aggressive.

JF - Other Worlds Science Fiction (Evanston, IL) VL - 2.4 (8) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earth Abides Y1 - 1949 A1 - George [Rippey] Stewart (1895-1980) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of catastrophe in which a pandemic kills all but a few people. The novel traces the life of one survivor who explores the U.S. and then settles in his old home near San Francisco. The novel then follows the slow growth of a small community that initially live off what was left behind but ultimately create the beginnings of a new society with the skills needed to live a simple, primitive life. The title reflects a recurring theme, that the earth will slowly adjust to the absence of human beings. Includes interracial marriage. The novel is at least in part a reworking of Jack London’s 1912 “The Scarlet Plague.”

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1969; Los Altos, CA: Hermes Publications, 1974; and Boston, MA: Mariner Editions/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020, with “Introduction to Earth Abides” by Kim Stanley Robinson (xi-xix). Collector's Edition illus. Toni L. Taylor with an "Introduction" by Arthur O. Lewis (ix-xiv). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1991.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prodigy" Y1 - 1949 A1 - Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eugenic eutopia/dystopia.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 43.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Caviar (New York: Ballantine Books, 1955), 84-95; and in The Perfect Host. Volume V: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Ed. Paul Williams (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1998), 257-62.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Root of Ampoi" Y1 - 1949 A1 - Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A fairly simple gender-role reversal. The women are eight feet tall, and the men are of normal stature.

JF - Arkham Sampler (Sauk City, WI) N1 -

Rpt. in Fantastic Stories of Imagination (Chicago, IL) 10.8 (August 1961): 31-46; and in his The End of the Story. The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith. Ed. Scott Connors and Ron Hilger (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 213-24.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow's Yesterday Y1 - 1949 A1 - A[lfred] M[ortimer] Stanley (1888-1966) KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a society that has degenerated physically but advanced mentally. Most work is done by machines. Gender-role reversal because the men are too weak. Eugenics with children raised by the state. Socialism.

PB - Dorrance & Co CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Visitor from Venus Y1 - 1949 A1 - Gertrude Short (1902-68) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Venus presented as a eutopia in contrast with the dystopian Earth. On Venus people do the right thing simply because it is the right thing. Venus has a universal language and world government. Argues for a political and religious role for women, who, it is said, must save Earth.

PB - William-Frederick Press CY - New York N1 -

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), 214-43 with an editor's note on 212-13.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - White City. A Novel Y1 - 1949 A1 - Paralee Sweeten Sutton KW - Female author AB -

New Age lost race communal eutopia located in Antarctica. In parallel to the Flood, the people were warned, instructed how to build their city, and survived a catastrophe that covered Antarctica with ice. Quite a bit on the history of the eutopia. One focus is on the correct raising of children. Thought transference, stress on reading color and vibrations.

PB - Palopress CY - Palo Alto, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Enterprise Island: "Old Joe's Way" Y1 - 1948 A1 - Hans Christian Sonne KW - Male author AB -

Fictional development of capitalism presented as a eutopia.

PB - The Business Bourse CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Wm. Linzee Prescott.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Giant's Strength: Drama in Three Acts Y1 - 1948 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Nuclear war dystopia with a brief eutopian vignette at the end. The play follows a family through the bombing of Hiroshima, the buildup to the war, the planted bombs exploding throughout the country, and the retaliation. They escape to a cave in South Dakota where they begin to learn to live in the new circumstances, but two members leave with very different dreams of building a new life. 

PB - Author CY - Monrovia, CA N1 -

Rpt. as A Giant's Strength: A Three Act-Drama of the Atomic Bomb. Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1948. U.K. ed. London: T.W. Laurie, [1948].

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walden Two Y1 - 1948 A1 - B[urrhus] F[rederick] Skinner (1904-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia brought about through behavioral engineering presented in the form of an intentional community, and a number of communities were established that intended to put Skinner's ideas into practice. While some are still in existence, all but one abandoned most of Skinner's specific ideas; see Hilke Kuhlmann, Living Walden Two: B.F. Skinner's Behaviorist Utopia and Experimental Communities. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. See also 1985 Skinner.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York N1 -

Reissued with new introduction by the author, "Walden Two Revisited" (New York: Macmillan, 1976), v-xvi. Rpt. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 2005. Chapter 14 is rpt. as "Instead of the Cross, the Lollipop" in The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 145-56 with an editor's note on 144-45.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Back to the Future Y1 - 1947 A1 - Meaburn [Francis] Staniland (1914-92) KW - English author AB -

Authoritarian, bureaucratic, conformist dystopia.

PB - Nicholas Vane CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Masterless Swords: Variations on a Theme Y1 - 1947 A1 - [William] Donald Suddaby (1900-64) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Primarily dystopian but suggests the possibility of a eutopia. In the first part, "Portrait of a King" (11-88), is about Alexander the Great (356-23 BCE); the second, "The Lovely Voyage" (89-173), is about Sir Francis Drake (c1540-96). The third section, "Woman In a Red Turban" (174-251) is set in the far future and is about a woman named Cahhna who leads women in a movement for perpetual peace but is opposed by men and ultimately betrayed by women. 

PB - T. Werner Laurie CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Soma Racks” Y1 - 1947 A1 - Margaret [Neeley] St. Clair (1911-95) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first of eight Oona and Jick stories, a couple living in a high-tech future. Humor and satire with all the stories focusing on Oona, a supposedly typical, deferential housewife. In each story, something goes wrong with an aspect of the high-tech future, and, in most cases, Oona saves the day without Jick being aware of it. The others are “Super Whost.” Illus. H. W. Kiemle. Startling Stories 15.3 (July 1947): 97-102; “Aleph Sub One.” Uncredited illus. Startling Stories 16.4 (January 1948): 62-69. Rpt. in Science Fiction Yearbook, Number 5 (New York: Popular Library, 1971); and in New Eves: Science Fiction About Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), with an editors’ note on ; “The Dobridust.” Illus. [Vincent] Napoli. Thrilling Wonder Stories 31.3 (February 1948): 41-46; “The Metal Lark.” Illus. H. W. Kiemle. Thrilling Wonder Stories 32.2 (June 1948): 71-77; “The Rotohouse.” Illus. Virgil Finlay. Thrilling Wonder Stories 32.3 (August 1948): 119-; “The Himalaychalet.” Illus. Virgil Finlay. Thrilling Wonder Stories 33.3 (February 1949): 110-14, 155; and “The Neo-Geoduck.” Illus. Virgil Finlay. Thrilling Wonder Stories 34.3 (August 1949): 129-136. Female author.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Story of My Village Y1 - 1947 A1 - H[enry] de Vere Stacpoole (1865-1951) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Village life as eutopia with the end of cities shown. The setting is Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, England.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Death into Life Y1 - 1946 A1 - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Similar to other works by Stapledon in that it projects humanity into both the relatively near and very far future, to a time beyond humanity. This relatively short (159 pp) version follows "the spirit of man" from death during World War II to a period in which humans inhabit eight planets to the development of a "cosmic consciousness" into which humanity is absorbed. On the copyright page there is an author's note saying, "This fantasy is not a novel." 

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Worlds of Wonder: Three Tales of Fantasy (Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Publishing Co., 1949), 91-251.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mural" Y1 - 1945 A1 - F[rancis] R[eginald] Scott (1889-1985) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A poem depicting an apparently perfect world brought about through science, but the tone is satirical.

JF - Overture PB - Ryerson Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in his Selected Poems (Toronto, ON, Canada: Oxford University Press, 1966), 68-69.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Old Man in New World Y1 - 1944 A1 - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Socialist eutopia that encourages diversity and individuality as seen by an old revolutionist who is not entirely comfortable in the world the revolution created. World federation. 

PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Worlds of Wonder: Three Tales of Fantasy (Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Publishing Co., 1949), 253-82; and in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 42-60. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Where the Stars Are Born Y1 - 1943 A1 - George [Thomas] Spaull (1876-1965) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A young adult novel describing a eutopia with no money, no warfare, work for all, and technological advances.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkness and the Light Y1 - 1942 A1 - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia presented as two alternative future histories. The dystopia is extrapolated from the situation as it existed in 1942. In the eutopia that situation is overcome and for a time a eutopia based on villages develops. Following that, the human race goes through periods of decline and advance until a new and higher human type develops. 

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974. Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 28-42.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Grand Canyon Y1 - 1942 A1 - V[ictoria Mary] Sackville-West (1892-1962) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia and eutopia. Germany wins World War II and Japan is defeated by the U.S., but peace last only briefly until Germany and Japan attack the U.S. During the attack a few people escape to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, where they create a good, cooperative society.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. with the subtitle A Novel. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1942.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Unknown Land Y1 - 1942 A1 - Viscount [Herbert Louis] Samuel (1870-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An explorer comes to believe that Belsalem, the country described in Bacon’s New Atlantis (1627) must exist and searches for, and discovers, it. Here the basis for the utopia is a treatment that enlarges the brain, and in addition to the science and technology central to the New Atlantis, there is great stress on health and mental activity. All knowledge had been sifted for truth. Work consists mostly of overseeing machines. No money. The family is sacrosanct and birth control produces a stable population. Little government need; some administration. The book concludes with two appendices. The first is “A Note on the Changing Shape of the Skull” (215-216) that consists of abstracts from Sir Janes Frazer’s the Golden Bough. Vol. 2 The Magic Art, 297. The second is “Scientific Discoveries” (217-221) and presents more information on three points in the book, the Nature of Light, Positive and negative electricity, and the Mental Ambience.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Loss of Eden: A Cautionary Tale Y1 - 1940 A1 - Douglas [Frank Lambert] Brown (1921-64) A1 - Christopher Serpell (1910-91) KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Germany wins World War II. New Zealand narrator.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as If Hitler Comes: A Cautionary Tale. London: Pub. for The British Publishers Guild by Faber and Faber, 1941. There are small differences between the editions.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rosscommon Y1 - 1940 A1 - Charles Allen Smart (1904-67) KW - Male author AB -

Detailed description of a fictional intentional community. Egalitarian except that African Americans were not welcome and did not join. People were paid salaries with allowances for children and had to pay only for purely personal expenses. Varied work. School is important with a stress on the subjects needed in the community like agriculture, animal husbandry, “home crafts” and “shop crafts,” with science and mathematics and history and literature in addition.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "City of the Corporate Mind" Y1 - 1939 A1 - Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in a series with 1937 Schachner, "Past, Present and Future" and "City of the Rocket Horde" and 1939 Schachner, "City of the Cosmic Rays". The city in this story in designed like a human body with a brain and subordinate parts functioning under the control of the brain.

JF - Astounding Stories VL - 24.4 U2 -

Illus. W. A. Koll.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "City of the Cosmic Rays" Y1 - 1939 A1 - Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in a series with 1937 Schachner, “Past, Present and Future” and “City of the Rocket Horde” and 1938 Schachner, “City of the Corporate Mind”. In this story, each, entirely different individual lives in a transparent cube.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 23.5 U2 -

Illus. [Hans Waldemer] Weeso[lowski] (1894-1948)

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hopkins Manuscript Y1 - 1939 A1 - R[obert] C[edric] Sherriff (1896-1975) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel concerns the run up to and results of the moon crashing into the Earth and lodging in the Atlantic Ocean with the focus on the survivors in Britain as described in a manuscript found by explorers from Abyssinia. Most of the manuscript is concerned with the disaster, but it includes the emergence of a system of mostly small towns described positively followed by the emergence of a power-hungry dictator.

PB - Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London/New York: Scribner, 2023. 387 pp. Also entitled The Cataclysm. London: Pan, 1958.

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Also entitled The Cataclysm. London: Pan, 1958.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Man Finds the Way Y1 - 1939 A1 - Philip A[loysius] Sullivan (b. 1882) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set in 2000 that shows the development of the better world. Religion. United States of the World. National Peace Institute which educates for peace. A law establishing a United States Peace Institute was passed in 1984 and the Institute was established in 1986.

PB - Margent Press CY - New York U1 -

The dust jacket adds the subtitle A Prophetic Novel.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Union Now: A Proposal for a Federal Union of the Democracies of the North Atlantic Y1 - 1939 A1 - Clarence K[irshman] Streit (1896-1986) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction but it includes an "Illustrative Constitution" (325-35) for the proposed union, which is seen as a first step to world government. A revised version is Union Now With Britain New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941. U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1941. This includes an "Illustrative Declaration of Inter-Dependence and Union (207-11) as well as the constitution, slightly revised (215-23). A defense of world federalism, designed as similar to the U.S. Federalist Papers, is The New Federalist. By Publius Justice, Owen J. Roberts, John F. Schmidt, and [mostly] Clarence K[irshman] Streit. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950.

PB - Harper CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1939.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Band of Brothers Y1 - 1939 A1 - [George Cecil] [Foster] (1893-1975) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia created by Germany winning World War 2.

PB - Herbert Jenkins CY - London U3 -

Seaforth [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When Time Stood Still" Y1 - 1939 A1 - Edwin K. Sloat KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A community called Futura is established in the Southwest U.S. desert where youth is prolonged and everyone lives peacefully.

JF - Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 13.7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Why Not Now? A British Islander's Dream Y1 - 1939 A1 - Arthur St. John (1862-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. London is transformed, and the Thames is clean and a center of activity. More simple life stressing families and neighborhoods then districts or towns, countries, continents, and the world.

PB - C.W. Daniel CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Island of the Individualists" Y1 - 1938 A1 - Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in a series with 1937 Schachner, “Past, Present and Future” and “City of the Rocket Horde” and 1939 Schachner, “City of the Corporate Mind” and “City of the Cosmic Rays”. In this story, the protagonists land on an island of isolated individuals who spend their entire lives in contemplation.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 21.3 U2 -

Illus. [Elliott] Dold, [Jr.] (1889-1957)

ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Borderland Y1 - 1938 A1 - M[artha] Marlowe Morris (b. 1867) A1 - Laura B[elle] Speer (b. 1883) KW - Female author AB -

Atlantis as an agrarian, tribal, spiritualist eutopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "City of the Rocket Horde" Y1 - 1937 A1 - Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in sequel to 1937 Schachner, "Past, Present and Future" in which characters from the previous story visit another dystopian city on the same planet. This city, although highly advanced technically, is more a simple authoritarian system but with a hierarchical system similar to that in the previous story. See also 1938 and 1939 Schachner, "City of the Corporate Mind" and "City of the Cosmic Rays.

JF - Astounding Stories VL - 20.4 U2 -

Illus. [Hans Waldemer] Weeso[lowski] (1894-1948)

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Forgetfulness” Y1 - 1937 A1 - [John Wood] [Campbell] [Jr.] (1910-71) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An extremely high-tech people chose to reject the technology and the violence that accompanied it and create a pastoral eutopia. Most of the story focuses on the people from another planet who plan to eliminate the eutopia to get access to the technology.

JF - Astounding Stories VL - 19.4 N1 -

Rpt. in Adventures in Time and Space: An Anthology of Modern Science-Fiction Stories. Ed. Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas (New York: Random House, 1946), 20-45, which was rpt. as Famous Science-Fiction Stories: Adventures in Time and Space. Ed. Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas (New York: Modern Library, 1957), 20-45; and in A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2003), 209-32.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Past, Present and Future" Y1 - 1937 A1 - Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia on a post catastrophe Earth of a hierarchical city with people living on levels appropriate to their status. First in a series of dystopias in which people from various past times experience various other dystopias. Sequels are 1937 Schachner, "City of the Rocket Horde," and 1938 and 1939 Schachner, "City of the Corporate Mind" and "City of the Cosmic Rays".

JF - Astounding Stories VL - 20.1 U2 -

Illus. [Hans Waldemer] Weeso[lowski] (1894-1948)

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Some Plant Olive Trees Y1 - 1937 A1 - Emma Gelders Sterne (1894-1971) KW - Female author AB -

A French settlement in Alabama with the intention to establish a community with the aims of the French Revolution. Combines fiction and non-fiction.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Star-Maker Y1 - 1937 A1 - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

One of Stapledon's visions of the far, far future where the human race has been replaced by more advanced species.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his To the End of Time: The Best of Olaf Stapledon. Ed. Basil Davenport (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953), 221-412; rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 221-412; as The Star Maker. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1961; in Last and First Men & Star Maker: Two Science-Fiction Novels (New York: Dover, 1968), 247-438; Bath, Eng.: Lythway Press, 1974; and ed. Patrick McCarthy. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004 with a “Foreword” by Freeman Dyson (xi-xv) and an “Introduction” by the editor (xix-xxxiii). Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 22-28. An earlier version was discovered and published as Nebula Maker. Hayes, Middlesex, Eng.: Bran's Head Books, 1976. Rpt. in Nebula Maker & Four Encounters with illustrations by Jim Starlin (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1983), 1-124 with an "Introduction" by Arthur C. Clarke (vii-x).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sterile Planet" Y1 - 1937 A1 - Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The sterile planet is Earth in 4260 because humans had ignored the prophecies of the early twentieth century and had “denuded the forests, plowed up the soil, meddled recklessly with the delicate balance of nature” (52). The story is primarily concerned with a battle between the so-called civilized and those who had been left behind when the last places with water had been captured and enclosed and a conflict between the authoritarian leader of the “civilized” and a scientist with a plan to restore Earth.

JF - Astounding Stories VL - 19.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Nature’s Warning: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction. Ed. Mike Ashley (London: British Library, 2021), 113-143.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stop! . . . Distracted People! Two Mirrors of the Future. Romantic Double Utopia Y1 - 1937 A1 - Ludovicus Textoris Serly KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Small town and rural eutopia after disastrous earthquakes.

PB - Bookcraft [Stamped above publisher’s name: Pub. by L.T. Serly] CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Super-Woman Y1 - 1937 A1 - A. Oliver Sutter AB -

A woman produces a world eutopia in which class antagonisms and conflicts between the races and between capital and labor end.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Young Men Are Coming! Y1 - 1937 A1 - M[atthew] P[hipps] Shiel (1865-1947) KW - Creole author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Montserrat British West Indies author AB -

Includes a fascist attempt to take over Britain.

PB - Vanguard Press CY - New York N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Vanguard Press, 1937. 375 pp.  

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bensalem and New Jerusalem Y1 - 1936 A1 - [Philip Francis] [Samuels] KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of 1627 Bacon, New Atlantis. Conservative. Christian. Political representation by trade or profession.

PB - Samuels-Bacon Pub. Co CY - Boston, MA U3 -

Samuels-Bacon [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Co-op. A Novel of Living: Together Y1 - 1936 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on a cooperative system and consensus. 

PB - The Author CY - Pasadena, CA N1 -

UK ed. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1936

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Empty World (A Romance of the Future) Y1 - 1936 A1 - D[orothy] E[mily] Stevenson (1892-1973) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Describes two societies after a catastrophe. One is purportedly a eutopia but is an authoritarian dystopia. The other is a simple society that has no eutopian aspirations but almost becomes a eutopia.

PB - Herbert Jenkins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. A World in Spell. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Machine Stops Y1 - 1936 A1 - [Victor] [Bayley] (1880-1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Disaster dystopia in which all metal disintegrates.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U3 -

Wayland Smith [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rude Awakening: A Story with a Warning" Y1 - 1936 A1 - F. A. S. Smith AB -

Brief picture of the dystopia that will be created if the Jews control the world.

JF - Action (London) VL - no. 14 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles" Y1 - 1936 A1 - [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire describing a eugenic experiment on an isolated island using group marriage. Ends with a satire on the Day of Judgment, which Shaw presents as the point of the play.

JF - The Simpleton, The Six, and the Millionaires: Three Plays PB - Constable CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle A Vision of Judgment. In The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1973), 6: 741-846, with the “Preface” on 745-64. See his “Preface on Days of Judgment.” The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1973), 6: 745-64. Rpt. with the subtitle “(The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles).” In his The Complete Prefaces. Volume 3: 1930-1950. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1997), 229-41. See also his “The Simple Truth of the Matter (A reply to the assertion of Joseph Wood Krutch in The Nation New York [140 (March 6, 1935): 286-87] that Shaw’s recent plays were merely vaudeville, quite devoid of meaning.” Malvern Festival Book, 1935). Rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1973), 6: 841-46. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Depression Island Y1 - 1935 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first part of the book is a satire on capitalism in which three men shipwrecked on an island recreate class. The second part of the book is a satire on gender relations. 

PB - Author CY - Pasadena, CA N1 -

The book originated as a few pages in his The Way Out: What Lies Ahead for America (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933), 25-31.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Escape" Y1 - 1935 A1 - [John Wood] [Campbell] [Jr.] (1910-71) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eugenics. Initially presented as dystopian but given a positive twist at the end.

JF - Astounding Stories (New York) VL - 15.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his Cloak of Aesir (Chicago, IL: Shasta, 1952), 47-69; rpt. (New York: Lancer Books, [1972]), 47-69; and in A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2003), 131-47.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Were Dictator Y1 - 1935 A1 - H[ugh] R[ichard] L[awrie] Sheppard (1880-1937) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Proposals for church reform, although most of the book is criticism of the current churches. The proposed reforms include cooperation among denominations, the recognition of others than the Church of England by the state, and the pooling of church endowments. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Were Dictator. From a Speech delivered at Blackpool on May 24th 1935 Y1 - 1935 A1 - The Right Hon. Sir Herbert [Louis] Samuel (1870-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Outlines the policies of Liberalism at the time. Remove trade restrictions; stabilize currencies; limit armaments; stimulate employment; reduce taxation; extend social reforms; develop industrial self-government; and enhance liberty and equality.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Machine" Y1 - 1935 A1 - [John Wood] [Campbell] [Jr.] (1910-71) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A flawed utopia. In this case the flaw is complete dependence on a machine intelligence. First story in a sequence, followed by “The Invaders.” Illus. [Elliott] Dold. Astounding Stories 15.4 (June 1935): 54-67 in which aliens invade Earth and, while settling the planet, work to reinvigorate the humans who had become so dependent of machine intelligence; and “Rebellion.” Illus. [Elliott] Dold. Astounding Stories 15.6 (August 1935): 64-85 in which humans, with their intelligence revived, expel the aliens.

JF - Astounding Stories VL - 14.6 N1 -

Rpt. in A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2003), 53-68.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Man With Four Dimensional Eyes” Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The man of the title is blind in our world but can see in an alternative high-tech eutopian world that he has seen since he was a child and describes he some detail.

JF - Wonder Stories VL - 7.3 U2 -

Illus. [Marco Enrico] Marchioni (1901-1987)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest Y1 - 1935 A1 - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Advanced human beings and the society they create. The eutopia is a small part of the work. Stapledon wrote many utopias.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as the Collectors Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1987 illus. Wendy Snow-Lang and with a brief "Introduction" (unpaged) by Alfred Bester. U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1936. Rpt. as Odd John: THE Masterpiece of the Superhuman Race that May Replace Humanity Sooner than You Think! New York: Galaxy, 1936. Galaxy Science Fiction Novel No. 8. U.S. ed. rpt. with the original title in his To the End of Time: The Best of Olaf Stapledon Ed. Basil Davenport (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953), 413-569. Rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), 413-569; as Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Ernest [sic]. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1965; and in Odd John & Sirius: Two Science Fiction Novels (New York: Dover Publications, 1972), 1-157.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unpredictable Adventure: A Comedy of Woman's Independence Y1 - 1935 A1 - Claire Myers [Wanders] Spotswood (1896-1983) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist eutopia using the allegorical form following the protagonist from Smug Harbor in the Land of Err where only Helfish (Half-truths) is spoken to Nithking (Thinking) where Reasonese is spoken. Explores questions of sexuality, marriage, divorce, and the position of women in society. Includes a section on an attempt to establish an egalitarian, simple life community called New Chimera that satirizes such attempts. Female author.

PB - Doubleday, Doran & Co CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. as by Claire Myers Spotswood Owens. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993, with an “Afterword” (459-96), “Glossary” (497-508), and “Works Cited” (509-11) by Miriam Kalman Harris .

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We, People of America And How We Ended Poverty. A True Story of the Future Y1 - 1935 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

This volume includes a history of Sinclair's run for governor and a future scenario in which the EPIC program wins support nationally. On EPIC, See also 1935 Sinclair, I, Governor of California, and his The Epic Plan for California [New York: Farrar & Rinehart], 1934, which includes, separately paged, I, Governor of California. A True Story of the Future (64 pp.), Epic Answers (32 pp.), The Lie Factory Starts (64 pp.), and Immediate Epic (35 pp.). 

PB - National EPIC League CY - Pasadena, CA N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Manifesto: Being the Book of The Federation of Progressive Societies and Individuals Y1 - 1934 A1 - C[yril] E[dwin] M[itchinson] Joad (1891-1953) A1 - Allan Young A1 - W[illiam Edward] Arnold-Forster A1 - Francis Meynell A1 - W[illiam] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) A1 - Janet Chance A1 - D[ennis] N[owell] Pritt A1 - Clough Williams-Ellis A1 - G[eoffrey] M[axwell] Boumphrey A1 - Archibald Robertson A1 - J[ohn] C[arl] Flugel ED - C[yril] E[dwin] M[itchinson] Joad (1891-1953) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Similar to 1912 The Great State in that the essays collectively describe a vision of a future eutopia that is, in essence, a socialist world state. See also Plan for World Order and Progress: A Constructive Review (The Federation of Progressive Societies and Individuals) 1.1 - 1.9 (April - September 1934), which published a review of the Manifesto by Aldous Huxley in 1.4 (July 1934): 7, 15.

PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Model State: Making a Utopia of California Y1 - 1934 A1 - Gilbert F. Stevenson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-capitalist non-fiction strongly influence by Upton Sinclair (1878-1968). The author is primarily concerned with monetary policy but also proposes a number of reforms designed to alleviate the effects of the depression. These include transforming the state militia into an industrial army for men 16 to 18. The last chapter, "The Altruistic Age" (109-23), describes the eutopia that the reforms will produce. Collective ownership. Everyone works their share and receives their share. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow Comes; A Story of Hope Y1 - 1934 A1 - Park Sumner (b. 1903) KW - Male author AB -

Cooperative commonwealth based on 1888 Bellamy. No taxes, no money. Technologically advanced. Change brought about peacefully.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Twilight" Y1 - 1934 A1 - [John Wood] [Campbell] [Jr.] (1910-71) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia of the waning of the human race. Most cities are uninhabited except by machines. Humans are becoming sterile and very few children are born.

JF - Astounding Stories VL - 14.3 N1 -

. Rpt. in A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2003), 19-37. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World As I Want It" Y1 - 1934 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Personal essay. Standard Sinclair--"I desire a world from which exploitation of man by man has been abolished and in which it is impossible for a man to consume wealth without having produced an equivalent amount of wealth." 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Australia, 1999" Y1 - 1933 A1 - Helen [de Guerry] Simpson (1897-1940) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia as the third part of three stories representing the history of religion. Mrs. Emma Jordan Sopwith (a thinly disguised Aimee Semple Macpherson--1890-1944), the Antichrist, becomes world ruler through conversion and violent suppression of all opposition. All books are burnt except Mrs. Sopwith’s writings and her version of the Bible, Rome is bombed, Ireland depopulated, privacy abolished, and thought is controlled. Australia is the only holdout, although the entire population has become nomadic to avoid assault. End of the world. 

JF - The Woman on the Beast, Viewed from Three Angles PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

(U.S. ed Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crowning of Technocracy Y1 - 1933 A1 - John Lardner A1 - Thomas Sugrue KW - Male author AB -

Humor. Anti-technocracy.

PB - Laboratory of Robert M. McBride & Co. CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glory Y1 - 1933 A1 - [Henry] Francis [Montgomery] Stuart (1902-2000) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which an airline takes over governments, which gradually cede power. War results.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

US ed. London: Macmillan, 1933.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - I, Governor of California and How I Ended Poverty. A True Story of the Future Y1 - 1933 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sinclair's vision of the future after he has been elected Governor of California. His platform centered on EPIC (End Poverty in California), which included proposals for public ownership and transitional reforms, both to be achieved through election. See also his I, Candidate for Governor and How I Got Licked. Pasadena, CA: Author, [1935?]. Rpt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. UK ed. as How I Got Licked and Why. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1935. The book was originally serialized in 1934 in daily installments in fifty U.S. newspapers. See also 1935 Sinclair and his The Epic Plan for California [New York: Farrar & Rinehart], 1934, which includes, separately paged, I, Governor of California. A True Story of the Future (64 pp.), Epic Answers (32 pp.), The Lie Factory Starts (64 pp.), and Immediate Epic (35 pp.).

PB - Upton Sinclair CY - Los Angeles, CA N1 -

UK ed. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1933.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Robot Technocrat" Y1 - 1933 A1 - Nathan[iel] Schachner (1895-1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in 1954. Mostly on the dystopia of a collapsing world and the struggle for power. Suggests that technocracy is the solution.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Way Out: What Lies Ahead for America Y1 - 1933 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A version of Sinclair's eutopia in a series of letters to a millionaire who has lost money in the depression. 

PB - Farrar & Rinehart CY - New York N1 -

2nd ed. Pasadena, CA: Upton Sinclair. U.K. ed. with the subtitle A Solution of Our Present Economic and Social Ills. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1933.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Allegion or New World Religion. Based upon a proposition affording a scientific fundament of thought as benevolently revolutionary as were the proposals of Copernicus and Galileo in Astronomy, or of Dr. Joseph Priestly in Chemistry Y1 - 1932 A1 - Titus K[eiper] Smith (b 1859) KW - Male author AB -

While most of the book is an exposition of the author's philosophy and religion, including some spiritualism, it also includes sections on how to eliminate poverty through a more equitable distribution of wealth and improve social relations. Ends with the suggestion that a "World Republic Club" be formed to foster these changes. See also 1895 Smith.

PB - Ptd. by William Edwin Rudge CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Men in London Y1 - 1932 A1 - W[illiam] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Loosely related to 1930 Stapledon, Last and First Men, but, even though it begins with a message from the last humans of two thousand million years in the future, the book is more restricted in scope. The people of this future have both evolved and re-designed themselves to live on Neptune. Children spend their first thousand years in a children's club, which they run, and which includes basic education. The second thousand years is spent on a separate continent, the Land of the Young. There are 96 sub-sexes. Telepathic. More leisure than work with each person specializing. Most of the book is then concerned with the modern world before, during, and after World War I. It then ends back on Neptune and with an "Epilogue" by Stapledon.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Methuen, 1934. There do not appear to be any differences in the editions. First ed. rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976 with an "Introduction" by Curtis C. Smith and Harvey J. Satty (v-xiv). Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 11-14.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pigeon Irish Y1 - 1932 A1 - [Henry] Francis [Montgomery] Stuart (1902-2000) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Set in the future. Includes an undeveloped plan to establish colonies to keep Irish traditions.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1932.

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.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black No More: Being An Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, A.D. 1933-1940 Y1 - 1931 A1 - George S[amuel] Schuyler (1895-1977) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. The personal and social effects of a process to whiten black skins. See also 1936-37 and 1937-38 Schuyler. A musical, based loosely on the novel, directed by Scott Elliott, written by John Ridley, lyrics and music by Tariq Trotter; music by Anthony Tidd, James Poyser and Daryl Waters; and choreographed by Bill T. Jones, was performed at the Pershing Square Signature Center, New York City, in February 2022. His “Our Greatest Gift to America.” Ebony and Topaz: A Collectanea, Ed. Charles Spurgeon Johnson (New York: Opportunity, Journal of Negro Life: National Urban League, 1927). Rpt. in Anthology of American Negro Literature. Ed. V. F. Calverton (New York: The Modern Library, 1929), 405-12 resonates with this book in that the gift is flattering whites. See also the author’s autobiography, Black and Conservative: The Autobiography of George S. Schuyler. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1966; and Rac[e]ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler. Ed. Jeffrey B. Leak. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. 

PB - The Macauley Co. CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969; College Park, MD: McGrath Publishing Co., 1969; Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1989; without the subtitle. London: The X Press, 1998; as Black No More. A Novel. New York: The Modern Library, 1999 with an “Introduction” by Ishmael Reed (ix-xiii); with the subtitle in Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 1930s. Not Without Laughter Langston Hughes Black No More George Schuyler The Conjure Man Dies Rudolph Fisher Black Thunder Arna Bontemps. Ed. Rafia Zafar (New York: The Library of America, 2011), 219-372; and with the subtitle New York: Penguin Books, 2018, with an “Introduction” by Danzy Senna (ix-xix)An excerpt was rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 35-50; and in Norton Anthology of African-American Literature. Ed. Henry, Louis Gates, Jr. and Valerie Smith. 2 vols. 3rd. ed. (New York: W.W. Norton, 2014), 1: 122-37. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Citizen of the Future" Y1 - 1931 A1 - Sir Josiah [Charles] Stamp [1st Baron Stamp] (1880-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Essentially better educated people will create a eutopia which has gotten over democracy.

JF - Criticism and Other Address PB - Ernest Benn CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Conquest of Gola" Y1 - 1931 A1 - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia with dystopian elements. Described at the beginning in purely eutopian terms but becomes an atypical gender-role reversal story with the women having primarily mental powers and the men from another planet having only physical and technological powers. The women expel the invaders, and their men remain subversive.

JF - Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL) VL - 2.11 N1 -

Rpt. in New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 31-42 with an editors’ note on 30; in Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Justine Larbalestier (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006), 36-49; in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 96-109 with an editors’ note on 96-97; in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 99-107 with an editors’ note on 98; in The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2018), 24-43; and in “The Conquest of Gola” and Other Stories by Leslie F. Stone. Ed. Batya Weinbaum (Beau Bassim, Mauritius: JustFiction! Edition//International Book Market Service/Omniscriptum Publishing Group, 2021), 214-233-, with an editor’s note on 211-214. 978-6200496324. Additional material, including biographies, can be found at womenSF.loa.org.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Exiles of the Moon” Y1 - 1931 A1 - Nathan[iel] Schachner (1895-1955) A1 - A[rthur] L[eo] Zagat (1865-1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of two classes: aristocrats and enslaved workers.

JF - Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL) VL - 3.4 - 6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Grand Mysterious Secret Marriage Temple Y1 - 1931 A1 - H. George Schuette (1850-1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eugenic eutopia. Heredity and eugenics taught in schools. Two different marriage certificates, one permitting children for the eugenically fit and one prohibiting children for the eugenically unfit. Tax bachelors. Married men paid more than unmarried and retained over unmarried men in times of economic downturn. Only men between 55 and 70 to fight in wars, which would produce fewer wars.

PB - Np CY - Manitowoc, WI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "If the General Strike Had Succeeded (Being Extracts from an Imaginary Newspaper June 1930)" Y1 - 1931 A1 - Rev. Fr. Ronald [Arbuthnott] Knox (1888-1957) ED - J[ohn] C[ollings] Squire KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire suggesting the negative effects of the power of labor.

JF - If It Had Happened Otherwise: Lapses into Imaginary History PB - Longmans, Green and Co. CY - London N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - On the Shores of the Infinite Y1 - 1931 A1 - Mrs. G. Stuart KW - Female author AB -

Theosophical novel that tours the solar system and the afterlife with depictions of higher beings. 

PB - :Simpkin Marshall/Jarrold & Sons. CY - London/Norwich VL - 312 pp. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After Y1 - 1930 A1 - M[ary Helena] Saltoun KW - Female author AB -

Hell as dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anna Perenna Y1 - 1930 A1 - Alan Sims KW - Male author AB -

Satire set one hundred years in the future attacking capitalists and workers as well as all governments and religion.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The End of the World" Y1 - 1930 A1 - Helen Sutherland KW - Female author AB -

The story depicts the world as it faces the period after a plague kills most men with few men born afterwards until the last man dies. Women successfully fulfil all the roles that men had held, but they will all gradually die. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eternal Man Revives Y1 - 1930 A1 - D[rury] D. Sharp (1880-1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Overpopulation. No animal life left. Sequel to his "The Eternal Man." Science Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL) 1.3 (August 1929): 230-33.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future Y1 - 1930 A1 - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

One of Stapledon’s visions of the far, far future where the human race has been replaced by more advanced species. It begins with an Introduction by One of the Last Men and then moves initially to World War I and after and the relatively near future. It then traces humanity through millions of years with both eutopian and dystopian periods to the end where a eutopian cosmic consciousness is developing and humans as such will disappear. Loosely related is 1932 Stapledon, Last Men in London.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as by W[illiam] Olaf Stapledon. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1931. Rpt. in his To the End of Time: The Best of Olaf Stapledon with editorial cuts and “Foreword to the Original American Edition” (3). Ed. Basil Davenport (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953), 1-220; rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), 1-220; and in Last and First Men & Star Maker: Two Science-Fiction Novels (New York: Dover, 1968), 1-246, which includes “Foreword to the Original American Edition” (3) and “Preface to the English Edition (9). Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 3-11; and in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 436-52, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 434-35. Chapter IX: Earth and Mars in rpt. in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. Ed. Stuart Clark (London: London: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury, 2022), 57-70.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Narrative of Jasper Weeple: Being an Account of His Strange Journey to the Land of Midanglia and of all that happened to him in that country Y1 - 1930 A1 - James [Runciman] Sutherland (1900-96) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Eutopia with a benevolent monarchy. All people are paid equally. Education by apprenticeship. No marriage, religion, or technology. There is then a revolution by power hungry capitalists.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Possibilities Y1 - 1930 A1 - Gezá Schinagel AB -

Eutopia. Reason. Abundance based on unlimited power. Education becomes the main goal in life. Stress on health and extremely advanced medically.

PB - Meador Publ. Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Vision of the Future in Vocational Education" Y1 - 1930 A1 - David [Samuel] Snedden (1868-1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Projects a eutopian education in 1960 with a stress on vocational education. Education compulsory until eighteen. Vocational education is compulsory for entering work, and this education starts at eighteen. 

JF - School and Society (New York) VL - 32.834 N1 -

Rpt. as three chapters (XV. “Some Backgrounds of the Great American Developments of Vocational Education from 1935-1960;” XVI. “The Period of Critical Evaluations and Reconstructions of Vocational Education;” and XVII. “The 1960 Programs of Vocational Education in the United States”) in his American High Schools and Vocational Schools in 1960 (New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1931), 95-119. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Between Worlds Y1 - 1929 A1 - Garret Smith (1876?-1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Begins on a Venus that is a eutopia based on long tradition and a rejection of coercion.

PB - Stellar Publishing Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Letter of the Twenty-Fourth Century" Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief depiction of a future eutopia based on a rural world-wide democracy.

JF - Amazing Stories (Jamaica, NY) VL - 4.9 N1 -

Rpt. in Sci-Fi Womanthology. Comp, and ed. Forrest J. Ackerman and Pam Keesey (Rockville, MD: Sense of Wonder Press, 2003), 9-13; and in “The Conquest of Gola” and Other Stories by Leslie F. Stone. Ed. Batya Weinbaum (Beau Bassim, Mauritius: JustFiction! Edition//International Book Market Service/Omniscriptum Publishing Group, 2021), 23-28 with an editor’s note on 23.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Men With Wings" Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first of two stories about winged people in South America that were created by an English scientist and have evolved into a substantial, well-established civilization, conflicts with the outside world, and, finally, acceptance and integration. In comparison to the men, the women are small and weak. The second story is “Women With Wings.” Illus. [Ed] Leonard. Air Wonder Stories 1.11 (May 1930): 984-1003. Rpt. in “The Conquest of Gola” and Other Stories by Leslie F. Stone. Ed. Batya Weinbaum (Beau Bassim, Mauritius: JustFiction! Edition//International Book Market Service/Omniscriptum Publishing Group, 2021), 131-210. In it, the political geography of the world has changed substantially, primarily through consolidation, and the world is ruled by the representatives (all men) of the ten most powerful nations. “Color was of no consequence” (986). Universal language (987). Use the sun and radium for energy (988). The issue faced by the culture is that a high percentage of women are dying in childbirth. Contact is made with Venus where an amphibious race has evolved, also with wings, in which the women are dominant, and the men are weak and small. The solution for Earth is interbreeding which is successful.

JF - Air Wonder Stories VL - 1.1 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Femspec 11.1 (2010): 86-155, with an editor’s note on 86-87; and in “The Conquest of Gola” and Other Stories by Leslie F. Stone. Ed. Batya Weinbaum (Beau Bassim, Mauritius: JustFiction! Edition//International Book Market Service/Omniscriptum Publishing Group, 2021), 32-139, with an editor’s note on 29-31 that covers this and “Women With Wings” below.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Out of the Void" Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) ED - Leslie F. Stone [pseud.] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mostly adventure and romance, but a flawed high-tech utopia is present that is vegetarian, telepathic, can communicate with animals, has painless euthanasia for both humans and animals, and has an island with no government set aside for higher education where men and women are free to go to study and teach. But the society is also hierarchical with slavery and has treated one group as not even able to be slaves. The ending indicates that some of this will change.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Philosophic Tales of the "Arabian Nights." The Three Voyages of Omar and Micromegas Y1 - 1929 A1 - Emil St. Cyr M.D. (b. 1865) KW - Male author AB -

Includes a eutopia on Saturn (81-127) where a highly advanced race with great mental powers have built gorgeous cities. Perfect memory both individually and as a race. Technologically advanced. Television has been sufficiently advanced to be able to view the entire city, thus eliminating crime, with privacy rewarded for good citizenship. This system is no longer needed because the people have evolved to the point that crime is unthinkable.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Squareheads; the Story of a Socialized State. A Futuristic Novel Y1 - 1929 A1 - William Salisbury (b. 1875) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia. Squareheads are symbols of conformity--must speak in phrases of four syllables and in sentences of equal metric value. Official thought. Eugenics. Some hypocrisy.

PB - Independent Pub. Co CY - New Rochelle, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Sun Went Out Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The sun is dying, and the human population has declined in numbers, intelligence, and physique from relying on the machines and production of the past, machines that are also dying. The most intelligent of the remaining population build great caves far underground to which the remaining population of the Earth retreated after the sun died. The decline was from a scientific world eutopia.

PB - Stellar Publishing Co., 1929 CY - New York VL - Science Fiction Series No. 4. U3 -

Leslie F. Stone [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The End of the Marriage Vow Y1 - 1928 A1 - J[ohn] H[enry] Symons (1873-1951) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

All worlds are stages of evolution; earth is on the low end of the scale. At the next stage men and women are free and equal. No procreation and no marriage, but love exists. This life is preparation for the next stage; failure leads to low status in the next stage.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Greed's Grip Broken or the Right to Live Y1 - 1928 A1 - Joseph W[eber] Savage (b. 1861) KW - Male author AB -

The United States has fallen completely into the hands of the plutocrats, who plan to abolish the republic. War. Monopolists defeated. Stress is on the conflict, but in the final chapter, a eutopia is outlined. Nationalization of railroads, telegraph, telephone, and public utilities. Worker representation on the boards of companies; sharing of profit with the citizenry. Child labor eliminated. Required voting. Amendments to the Constitution go to referenda in each state. Possible limitation on the right of suffrage. Universal education.

PB - The Avondale Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Hicks Inventions with a Kick. The Perambulating House” Y1 - 1928 A1 - [Ernest Clement] [Fezandié] (1856-1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

One of a series of satire on technology on technology gone wrong, in this case a house that can move of its own volition. The other stories in the series are “Hicks’ Inventions with a Kick: The Automatic Self-Serving Dining Table” By Henry Hugh Simmons [pseud.]. Illus. [Frank R.] Paul (1884-1963) Amazing Stories 2.1 (April 1927): 52-57, 99; “Hicks’ Inventions with a Kick: The Automatic Apartment.” By Henry Hugh Simmons [pseud.]. Illus. [Frank R.] Paul (1884-1963) Amazing Stories 2.5 (August 1927): 493-97, 512, 514; and “Hicks’ Inventions with a Kick: The Electro-Hydraulic Bank Protector.” Henry Hugh Simmons [pseud.]. Illus. [Frank R.] Paul (1884-1963). Amazing Stories 2.9 (Dec 1927): 860-69. 

JF - Amazing Stories (New York) VL - 3.5 N1 -

Rpt. as “The Perambulating House.” New Horizons: Yesterday’s Portraits of Tomorrow. The Last Science Fiction Anthology Edited by August Derleth With Introduction and Biographical Notes by Joseph Wrzor (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1998), 143-66. 

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Illus. [Frank R.] Paul (1884-1963)

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Henry Hugh Simmons [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Private Utopia" Y1 - 1928 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Comments on the experiment at Helicon Hall. Socialism. Sinclair. On Helicon Hall, see Lawrence Kaplan, "A Utopia During the Progressive Era: The Helicon Home Colony 1906-1907." American Studies 25.2 (Fall 1984): 59-73. In a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in. See also Stuart Chase, Edna Ferber, Charles J. Finger, Sinclair Lewis, and H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken.

JF - The Nation (New York) VL - 127.3288 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Parliaments Fail: A Synthetic View from the Gallery Y1 - 1927 A1 - A Sympathiser [pseud.] KW - Indian author AB -

Discusses Parliaments in England, France, Germany, and Italy and the utopian Parliaments envisaged in each country. 

PB - Thacker, Spink & Co CY - Calcutta, India UR - https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.100251 U3 -

A Sympathiser [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "3000 A.D." Y1 - 1926 A1 - I. S. KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Short, humorous story on the impact of telepathy.

JF - Otago University Review (Dundedin, New Zealand) VL - 39 ER - TY - ABST T1 - City of Desire Y1 - 1926 A1 - Juanita Savage KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Lost race novel set in a Mayan city where a young woman finds a handsome, white, English-speaking king, and, after the usual adventures, they fall in love and everything ends happily. 

PB - Geoffrey Bles CY - London N1 -

U. S. ed. New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh/The Dial Press, 1930; and Chicago: A. L. Burt Company Publishers, 1930.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ultimate Island: A Strange Adventure Y1 - 1925 A1 - L[ancelot] de Giberne Sieveking (1896-1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure but includes a flawed utopia, an almost inaccessible island that provides a relaxed life of equality, including gender equality, and freedom. The flaw is that in order to maintain the population at the correct point, childbirth is rigidly controlled, and eugenically imperfect children are killed, as is anyone who tries to leave.

PB - George Routledge & Sons, Ltd CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: International Publishers, 1925.

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A map of the island appears on the inside front and backer covers. The U.S. ed. has the map as a frontispiece.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Idealism and the Ideal State" Y1 - 1924 A1 - Hugh W[heeler] Sanford (1880-1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of eugenics--keep the "inefficient" from breeding--and a reformed capitalism. No unions and no collective bargaining. No minimum wage. Elected representatives are not delegates reflecting the opinion of their district but are expected to vote to support the "ideal state".

JF - The Business of Life PB - Oxford University Press American Branch CY - New York VL - 2 vols. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gopher Prairie--A.D. 2000" Y1 - 1923 A1 - David [Samuel] Snedden (1868-1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Educational eutopia with a stress on culture. 

JF - School and Society (New York) VL - 18.452 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Perfect World: A Romance of Strange People and Strange Places Y1 - 1922 A1 - Ella M[arie] Scrymsour[-Nicol] (1888-1962) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A complex novel that includes both a dystopia and a eutopia. The dystopia is in the center of the Earth and is inhabited by the descendants of Jews condemned by God to be swallowed by the Earth. The protagonists from the surface escape the dystopia, and, while the Earth is destroyed, they escape in a "airship", which takes them directly to a eutopian Jupiter. Jupiter had a separate Adam and Eve, but without the Fall and has developed a good society that, while hierarchical, is based on pro rata sharing.

PB - Eveleigh Nash & Grayson Ltd. CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1922.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Towards a New Social Order Y1 - 1922 A1 - Johan August Schvan KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Single tax. Absolute freedom of exchange. No monopolies. Many reforms. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For his explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - George Allen and Unwin CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Back to Methuselah; A Metabiological Pentateuch Y1 - 1921 A1 - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Traces the history of humankind from prior to Adam to the distant future. Some people become long-lived, initially living for 300 years. In 3000 this divides the world into the long-lived, who live in the British Isles, and the short-lived, who inhabit the rest of the world. In 31920, there are no more short-lived, and the long-lived live hundreds of years.

PB - Brentano's CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Constable, 1921. The U.S. ed. is marginally the first ed. Rev. and rpt. for the Standard Edition. London: Constable, 1931. Rpt. further rev. New York: Oxford University Press, 1947, which includes “Postscript After Twenty Years” (257-71); rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1972), 5: 685-703; and The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1972), 5: 251-713, which also includes “A Glimpse of the Domesticity of Franklyn Barnabas (632-84), which was first published in the Collected Edition: Volume 6 Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings (London: Constable, 1932), 141-85; “Birmingham as a Home of Dramatic Art (Curtain speech after first performance of Birmingham Repertory Theatre production on 12 October, Birmingham Gazette 13 October 1923)” (703-04); “The Serial Play (Interview drafted by Shaw, The Observer, London, 21 October 1923)” (704-07); “Bernard Shaw Piqued (Written statement, presented as interview, Daily Express, London, 22 February 1924” (707-09); and “Letters to the Editor of The Times” (709-13). See Shaw’s “Preface: The Infidel Half Century” (London: Constable, 1931), vii-lxxxvi; and The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1972), 5: 255-339. Rpt. rev. in his The Complete Prefaces. Volume 2: 1914-1929. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1995), 373-430. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Council of Seven Y1 - 1921 A1 - J[ohn] C[ollis] Snaith (1876-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia in which a group of newspaper editors bias and falsify the news in order to enrich themselves and control the world. Against them is the "Council of Seven" or the "Society of the Friends of Peace" who use murder to fight them. Mostly intrigue.

PB - D. Appleton CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dennison Grant: A Novel of To-day Y1 - 1920 A1 - Robert [James Campbell] Stead (1880-1959) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly family history and romance, but it includes a land settlement scheme that will bring about a better society.

PB - The Musson Book Co CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fall: Being a True Account of What Happened in Paradise, for the Benefit of All Scandal-Mongers, With a New Interpretation of Sacred History, Vindicating Snakes and Apples Y1 - 1919 A1 - George Seibel (1872-1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia brought about by conquering the physical universe, such as controlling gravity and changing anything into gold. Men and women separated. Scientific control of procreation. No private property. No gods. Entire planet moved from Earth to Venus to assist the younger Venusians to civilization. Two malcontents, Adam and Eve, are left behind.

PB - The Lessing Co. CY - Pittsburgh, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fifty Years of Peace 1919-1969" Y1 - 1919 A1 - [Henry] Powell Spring (1891-1950) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia resulting from a nine-year peace conference. Christian, rational, and scientific. Disarmament in favor of the United Nations. World union and international democracy. Esperanto. 

JF - Trinity Review (University of Toronto, ON, Canada) VL - 31.4 N1 -

Repub. as "Utopia or Common Sense." In his The Peace Aims of Humanity (Winter Park, FL: The Orange Press, 1943), 177-91. Published as a pamphlet Winter Park, FL: Cultural World Center Assoc., 1945.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Heads of Cerberus" Y1 - 1919 A1 - [Gertrude Barrows] [Bennett] (1884-1948?). KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in a parallel Philadelphia in 2118. There is a corrupt government with many petty rules.

JF - Thrill Book (New York) VL - 2.4 - 3.2 N1 -

Repub. illus. Ric Binkley. Reading, PA: Polaris Press, 1952 with an "Introduction" by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach (13-16). Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978;  New York: Carroll & Graf, 1984 with an "Introduction" by Robert Weinberg ([15-18]); and New York: The Modern Library, 2019 with an Introduction by Naomi Alderman (vii-xi).

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Repub. illus. Ric Binkley.

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Francis Stevens [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The People of the Ruins; A Story of the Future" Y1 - 1919 A1 - Edward [Richard Buxton] Shanks (1892-1953) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A general strike followed by a revolution, fifty years of world war, and one hundred years of famine and disease produce a loss of technology and arts and craft and a resurgence of religion. Return to a more primitive life.

JF - The County Gentleman & Land and Water (London) VL - nos. 2997 - 3014 N1 -

Repub. with the subtitle A Story of the English Revolution and After. London: W. Collins Sons, 1920. U.S. ed. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1920.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Somewhere in Christendom Y1 - 1919 A1 - Evelyn [Jane] Sharp (1869-1955) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel describes a small country between two regularly warring large countries that establishes an egalitarian, Christian cooperative eutopia.

PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Universal Panacea in a Nick of Time. Intellectual Determination of Unity and Perfection The Only Complete Explanation of the Golden Rule First Proclamation of the Goldless Rule Ennobling Free-Will-Less Truth Enthroning Health and Justice. At the head of the title The True, The Beautiful, The Good "Man Know Thyself" and Final Era Science of Government Y1 - 1919 A1 - Nelson Dwight Sickels (b. 1859) KW - Male author AB -

Extremely detailed description of how to live and organize society but rambling and repetitive. Millennial.

PB - Sickels & Lindquist/Ptd. Rogers & Hall CY - Los Angeles, CA/Chicago, IL N1 -

All copies examined have Lindquist and Los Angeles crossed out and Chicago written in as location of the publisher.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Coöperative Commonwealth." Y1 - 1918 A1 - William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) ED - Albert Galloway Keller Editor KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A critique of intentional communities and cooperation in the form of a future newspaper.

JF - The Forgotten Man and Other Essays PB - Yale University Press/Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press CY - New Haven, CT/London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fair Inez: A Romance of Australia Y1 - 1918 A1 - Douglas [Brooke Wheelton] Sladen (1856-1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Conservative eutopia set in 2000 A.D. Technological changes have produced few social changes. Argues that colonies produce better people. The novel ends with a new king, who had lived and worked in Australia and his Australian wife planning to change the monarchy into a more open and democratic institution.

PB - Hutchinson & Co CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Hutchinson & Co., [1918].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Friend Island" Y1 - 1918 A1 - [Gertrude Barrows] [Bennett] (1884-1948?). KW - Female author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire.

JF - All-Story Weekly (New York) VL - 88.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Fantastic Novels Magazine 4.3 (September 1950): 110-16; in Under the Moons of Mars: A History and Anthology of "The Scientific Romance" in the Munsey Magazines, 1912-1920. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970), 125-36; and in New Eves: Science Fiction About Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 5-15 with an editors' note on 4; and in The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2015), 152-63 with an editor’s note on 163.

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Francis Stevens [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unprecedented Invasion of Altruria Y1 - 1917 A1 - Don C[arlos] Seitz (1862-1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Laissez faire eutopia.

PB - Rustic Press CY - Cos Cobb, VT N1 -

Supposed to have been reprinted from the New York Evening Post (April 7, 1917) but not found there.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Birth of Universal Brotherhood Y1 - 1916 A1 - Anna Ratner Shapiro KW - Female author AB -

A few pages of a eutopia at the end. Christianity, education. Some spiritualism.

PB - Barton Publishing Co CY - Kansas City, MO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Courtship Superlative" Y1 - 1916 A1 - C. MacLean Savage AB -

Mostly adventure and romance but set in a eugenically oriented future.

JF - All-Story (New York) VL - 62.1 - 4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hundredth Wave. A Novel Written to Accomplish Two Strongly Interlinked Purposes Y1 - 1916 A1 - Grantly Standerson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Society of Progress works throughout human history to build a religious eutopia that does not contradict science. It is particularly opposed to Mormonism, and Salt Lake City is destroyed in an earthquake. The first of the “Two Strongly Interlinked Purposes” is “to arouse spiritually thousands of devout, honest, followers of a false religion [Mormonism] to the real degradation of their religion, and the other as high a purpose as ever can move a human being” [the search for Truth] (5).

PB - Charles H. Kerr & Co. CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ideal Army" Y1 - 1915 A1 - Strozzi [pseud.] AB -

Poem describing an ideal army without many rules, optional parades, automatic leave, packs held aloft by balloons, and so forth.

JF - The Gasper VL - no. 7 U3 -

Strozzi [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Humanity and the Mysterious Knight Y1 - 1914 A1 - Mack Stauffer KW - Male author AB -

Political novel set in a future of extremes of poverty and wealth. Battle between labor and capital. Capital does better in the battle.

PB - Roxburgh Publishing Company CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Millennium: A Comedy of the Year 2000 Y1 - 1914 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eleven survivors of a catastrophe that kills everyone else in the world initially replicate the capitalist dystopia that is the U.S. in 2000, but most of the people come to reject that and by the end a socialist eutopia is suggested but not developed.

PB - Haldeman-Julius Co., 1924 CY - Girard, KS VL - 3 vols. Little Blue Book 590-592. N1 -

UK ed. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1929. Rpt. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000 with an introduction by Carl Jensen (vii-xxvi). Originally published in The Appeal to Reason (1914).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The American Emperor. A Novel Y1 - 1913 A1 - William Salisbury (b. 1875) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An ambitious American financier creates a dystopia with himself as sole ruler.

PB - The Tabard Inn Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Between Eras: From Capitalism to Democracy. A Cycle of Conversations and Discourses with Occasional Side-Lights upon the Speakers Y1 - 1913 A1 - Albion W[oodbury] Small (1854-1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A fictional discussion people centering on a strike. Includes attacks on and defenses of capitalism with arguments about how to produce a better society. See George Mariz, “Towards a Socio-Historical Understanding of the Clerical-Utopian Novel.” Utopian Studies 14.1 (2003): 65-67. 

PB - Inter-collegiate Press CY - Kansas City, MO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "'Jesus is Here!'" Y1 - 1913 A1 - Charles M[onroe] Sheldon (1857-1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1896-97 Sheldon with many of the same characters and set fifteen years after the events of that novel. In this novel, Jesus returns to earth and faces the same issues as the people did in In His Steps. But in this novel the issues are expanded to broader economic and political issues with an indication at the end the revitalized Christianity will bring about a worldwide eutopia.

JF - The Christian Herald (New York) PB - George H. Doran CY - New York VL - 36.43 - 37.6 N1 -

Rpt. as “Jesus is Here!” Continuing the Narrative of In His Steps (What Would Jesus Do?). New York: George H. Doran, 1914. U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914. Rpt. Topeka, KS: Capper's Books, 1984. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Laborers' Catechism: The Open Road to the New Utopia Y1 - 1913 A1 - Thomas Jefferson Sandford KW - Male author AB -

Literally a catechism with questions and answers. Proposes various reforms in the financial and political systems that produce a eutopia and provides apparently fictional examples of the results of specific reforms. A new voting system is designed to include all the proposed voting reforms of the time. New system of taxation at 2% per year on personal and real property.

PB - The Society for the True Republic CY - St. Paul, MN N1 -

2nd ed. The Laborers' Catechism: or The Wide Way to a New Republic. New York: The Society for the True Republic, 1914; 3rd ed 1916; 4th ed. 1928 New York with the 2nd ed. title.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Love of Meltha Laone; or, Beyond the Sun Y1 - 1913 A1 - David Leroy Stump KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

This is a much-expanded ed. of 1896 Stump at the end of which the protagonist's interest in Meltha Laone is mentioned but not developed. Detailed eutopia set on a planet on the opposite side of the sun. No money. Technology. “Everybody has all of everything they need and can use and consume. . .” (33). Stress on the family. No pets. Refers to a related work entitled A Romance of Two Planets that appears to be lost.

PB - Roxburgh Publishing Company CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crock of Gold Y1 - 1912 A1 - James Stephens (1882/4-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Fantasy in which traditional Irish folklore interacts with the contemporary world. Contrast between fulfilled desire, represented by the god Pan (imported by Leprechauns whose gold had been stolen) and happiness (represented by the god Angus Óg). Ends with the suggestion that a eutopia will be created.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1912. With twelve illustrations in colour and decorative headings and tailpieces by Thomas Mackenzie. New York: Macmillan, 1926. Rpt. without the color illustrations. Dublin, Ireland: Gill & Macmillan, 1995.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 5000 A.D. A Review and an Excursion. Read Before ye Sette of Odd Volumes at Oddenino's Imperial Restaurant on Jan. 24th, 1911 Y1 - 1911 A1 - Ralph [Sidney Albert] Straus (1892-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Pages 39-56 presents a eutopia based on the samurai of 1905 Wells. Pages 9-39 gives a survey of previous literature on utopias.

PB - Privately ptd. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Athonia or, The Original Four Hundred Y1 - 1911 A1 - H. George Schuette (1850-1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An odd novel in that a series of eutopias is presented, all of which fail. Four hundred people (200 men and 200 women) of ancient Athens discover America (Yucatan is suggested) and try a number of different social experiments. Initially they try equality without laws to regulate behavior; then they institute a number of laws; and then they institute inequality between men and woman. Ultimately most of the people choose to hunt and fish rather than establish a great civilization.

PB - The Lakeside Company CY - Manitowoc, WI U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Columbus of Space Y1 - 1911 A1 - Garrett P[utnam] Serviss (1851-1929) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Science fiction novel about an extended stay on Venus. Mostly adventure, but Venus is inhabited by two peoples, one of which is generally good and the other of which is evil.

PB - D. Appleton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion, 1974.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Horroboos Y1 - 1911 A1 - Morrison I[saac] Swift (1856-1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-capitalist satire. See also 1893 and 1903 Swift, his Vicarious Philanthropy. [New York: np, 18?], and his The Evil Religion Does. Boston, MA: The Liberty Press, 1917.

PB - The Liberty Press CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kalomera; The Story of a Remarkable Community Y1 - 1911 A1 - W[illiam] J[ohn] Saunders (1873-1928) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Communist eutopia in which each town manages its own affairs under the supervision of the central government. Each town also provides some national service like producing goods for the national stores and working on construction projects. All people equal. Gender roles are fairly traditional but the head of state and the heads of all departments that concern both sexes rotate. Separate gender authority in those areas where only men or women work. Religion that teaches morality.

PB - Elliot Stock CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Military Socialism Y1 - 1911 A1 - [Jacob W.] [Horner] KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian eutopia organized along military lines. For example, "Every man who attains the rank of major-general, through whatever channel, is by virtue of his rank, a member of parliament" (34). Racist, sexist.

PB - Author CY - Indianapolis, IN U3 -

Dr. Walter Sensney [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Seven Sons of Ballyhack Y1 - 1911 A1 - Thomas Sawyer Spivey (1857-1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly fantasy and adventure, but the last chapter includes twenty points of the "Essentials to National Government" (307-10) outlining the elements of what is needed to create a eutopia. The points include few, simple laws; no war; no personal weapons; no secrecy; limited taxation; the arts; particularly music; and others primarily concerned with limiting governmental power.

PB - Cosmopolitan Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Outland Y1 - 1910 A1 - [Mary Hunter] [Austin] (1868-1934) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Tale of a hidden hunter gatherer society, called the Outliers, with a simple, balanced life.

PB - John Murray CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. 

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Gordon Stairs [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Persecution Y1 - 1909 A1 - S[idney] N[ewman] Sedgwick (1872-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A successful Chinese invasion of Europe is possible due to a falling away from God. A religious revival brings the overthrow of the Chinese.

PB - Grant Richards CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Press Cuttings: A Topical Sketch compiled from the editorial and correspondence columns of the Daily Papers, as performed by the Civic and Dramatic Guild at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on the 9th July 1909 Y1 - 1909 A1 - [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on women's suffrage, the military, and politics and politicians set three years in the future.

PB - Archibald Constable & Co. CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Translations and Tomfooleries. Vol. 18 of The Works of Bernard Shaw (London: Constable & Co., 1930), 129-68; and The Bodley Head Collected Plays With Their Prefaces. Volume III (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodlery Head, 1971), 837-95, which includes “Banned Play. Censor’s Objection to ‘Press Cuttings’” (886-95). Originally published in German translation as “Zeitungsausschnitte.” März (Berlin) (July 1909). 

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Originally published in German translation as “Zeitungsausschnitte.” März (Berlin) (July 1909).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coup D'Etat of 1961" Y1 - 1908 A1 - Henry Dwight Sedgwick [III] (1861-1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of rampant capitalism that results in an effective monarchy in the U.S.

JF - The New American Type and Other Essays PB - Houghton, Mifflin CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. American Utopias. Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Geyserland; Empiricisms in Social Reform. Being Data and Observations Recorded By the Late Mark Stubble, M.D., Ph.D. [A Tentative Edition] Y1 - 1908 A1 - Richard Hatfield, ed. [written by] (b. 1853) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. No money. All property common. Eugenics with no marriage or families. Stress on prudential restraint. Elders or a Council of Doctors administers the island; there is also a representative government. Jobs are rotated. Occupation and status revealed by dress. Much of the text is composed of lectures to the reader.

PB - Ptd. for Richard Hatfield CY - Washington, DC U3 -

The Late Mark Stubble, M.D., Ph.D.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - How the Vote Was Won. Produced for the First Time at the Royalty Theatre, London, April 13, 1909 Y1 - 1908 A1 - Cicely [Mary] Hamilton (1875-1952) A1 - [Christabel] [Marshall] (ca. 1875-1960) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Successful general strike of all women who do not have the means to support themselves. Those who are refused support by their male relatives (most of them) go on relief.

PB - Edith Craig CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as How the Vote Was Won. A Play on One Act. Chicago, IL: Dramatic Publishing Company, 1910. Rpt. in How the Vote Was Won and Other Suffragette Plays (London: Methuen, 1985), 23-33, with production notes by Carole Hayman (19-21); and in The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays. Ed. Naomi Paxton (London: Methuen, 2013), 1-28. The play is best known in this version, but it originated as “How the Vote Was Won (Some Short Extracts from Prof. Dryasdust’s Political History of the Twentieth Century published in the Year 2007 A.D.).” By Cicely [Mary] Hamilton. Woman’s Franchise, no. 20 (November 14, 1907): 227-28, which was published separately as How the Vote Was Won (Some short Extracts from Prof. Dryasdust’s ‘Political History of the Twentieth Century,’ published in the year 2008 A.D.). [London]: Women’s Writers’ Suffrage League, [1908]. 

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"Some Short Extracts from Prof. Dryasdust's Political History of the 20th Century."

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Liberators; A Story of Future American Politics Y1 - 1908 A1 - Isaac N. Stevens (1858-1920) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on the nationalization of utilities and railroads. The attention of the book focuses on one individual who fights throughout the entire time for these changes, including battles in the streets and almost class war. The ultimate conversion of one of the capitalists due to the love of his daughter for this man is the key to getting the railroad bill passed.

PB - B.W. Dodge & Company CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Nella Fountain Binkley.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Saints are Gone Y1 - 1908 A1 - Constancia Serjeant KW - Female author AB -

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

PB - John Long CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Things Were Doing Y1 - 1908 A1 - C[harles] A[llen] Steere KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialist eutopia. Much of the novel is concerned with the initial revolution, which is simple and bloodless because almost all the workers are already socialists. Rapid transformation of the United States as a result of new technology, which is described in detail, and hard work.

PB - Charles H. Kerr and Company CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dust which is God; An Undimensional Adventure Y1 - 1907 A1 - Ralph [Sidney Albert] Straus (1892-1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of evolution and religion. A man is shown the First, Second, and Third Worlds, which are stages of human evolution, with the First World the beginning of consciousness, the Second World the contemporary world, and the Third World the eutopia to which evolution is tending. In the Third World friction has been overcome and humanity has evolved wings.

PB - Samurai Press CY - [Norwich, Eng.] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Elixir of Life Y1 - 1907 A1 - William [Arthur] Satchell (1861-1942) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Various themes, but one is building a good society on an isolated island after a shipwreck. Stress on the need for authority.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hidden Country" Y1 - 1907 A1 - [Janet] Syrett (1865-1943) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A story for children about the Kingdom of Progressia, which is based on rationality, equality, and freedom but has no fantasy, color, trees, grass, birds, and so forth. Children have no toys. The King and Queen live in a house the same as everyone else and must hold down regular jobs like everyone else. The Fairy Morgana creates a fairy tale setting in the center of the city that only believers can see. Conflict arises between those who can see it and those who can't, and they divide into two cities.

JF - Our Jabberwock (London) VL - 4.22 - 27 U3 -

Netta Syrett [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Industrial Republic; A Study of the America of Ten Years Hence Y1 - 1907 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialist eutopia brought about by the vote rather than revolution. Industries nationalized. Permanent employment. No servants. Simpler life; no luxuries. No private schools. Cooperative farms. Includes a description of the Helicon Home Colony in Englewood, NJ, where the author lived while writing the book. 

PB - Doubleday, Page & Company CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1907.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Major Barbara" Y1 - 1907 A1 - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

While the play's focus is elsewhere, Act III, Scene ii includes a factory town eutopia called Percivale St. Andrews, which includes excellent facilities and a pension system.

JF - John Bull's Other Island and Major Barbara: also How he Lied to Her Husband PB - Archibald Constable CY - London N1 -

Rev. in The Works of Bernard Shaw (London: Constable, 1930), 11: 249-350, with his Preface “First Aid to Critics” (205-47). Rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1971), 3: 67-200 with the “Preface” with its 1933 “Postscript” (15-63); as Major Barbara: Definitive Text. Ed. Nicholas Grene. London: Methuen, 2008 with the “Preface” (133-67). The “Preface” is rpt. in his The Complete Prefaces Volume 1: 1889-1913. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1993), 245-77.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Maud Muller's Ministry or The Claims of Christian Socialism Y1 - 1907 A1 - Rev. James Lawrenson Smiley KW - Male author AB -

Presents part of the process of the transition to 1888 Bellamy's future and the arguments for it.

PB - Np CY - Annapolis, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Theodore is King. Extracts Taken From a Complete Account of the New Declaration of the Change From the United States of America To the United Kingdom of America and the Establishing of Theodore on the Throne Y1 - 1907 A1 - [Wayland] [Spaulding] (1850-1918) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed egalitarian eutopia. Class conflict followed by a peaceful revolution and the establishment of a monarchy that creates economic and racial equality. The wives and daughters of the rich supported the changes and that is what tipped the balance in support of a peaceful revolution.

PB - Chauncey Holt CY - New York U3 -

Viter Strikeshoulder [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Trust Trusted Y1 - 1906 A1 - W. T. F. Smith M.D. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia brought about by all property being owned by a single combine in which everyone is a shareholder. The combine takes over from the government. Very strict immigration. Religion.

PB - Primo Press CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Backwards and Forwards Y1 - 1905 A1 - Summer Spring [pseud.] AB -

Detailed anti-socialist dystopia. The novel is divided into two parts, "Backwards" and "Forwards". The former is about the success of socialism; the latter part is about the resurgence of individualism.

PB - Henry J. Glaisher CY - London U3 -

Spring, Summer [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Theatre of the Future" Y1 - 1905 A1 - G[eorge] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire set in 1910. The theatre had become a thing entirely for the rich, who were paid to attend. A man who had been out of London for years starts a successful reform.

JF - Grand Magazine VL - no. 1 N1 -

Rpt. in Ayot St. Lawrence Edition of the Collected Works of Bernard Shaw VI Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings (New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1932), 55-82.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Angels' Diary; and, Celestion Study of Man Y1 - 1903 A1 - [Mrs.] [J. A. Seeds Samson] [Lender] [Probable author] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first part of the book is a visit to Paradise, both before and after death, with brief visits to other planets. 

PB - Merchants Publishing Co. CY - Denver, CO U5 -

Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Case of The. Fox, Being his Prophecies Under Hypnotism of the Period Ending A.D. 1950. A Political Utopia Y1 - 1903 A1 - William F[ord Robinson] Stanley (1829-1909) KW - Male author AB -

Political eutopia with the emphasis on administrative and structural changes. Paris is the capitol of the English-speaking United States of Europe. Women can vote but cannot run for national office. Some eugenic legislation. Limited welfare system, and the unemployed are taxed to force them to work.

PB - Truslove and Hanson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Future Is Ours" Y1 - 1903 A1 - John Addington Symonds (1840-93) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief poem suggesting the eutopia to come after the revolution. Little detail.

JF - The Comrade (New York) VL - 2.6 N1 -

Almost certainly published earlier.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - His Pseudoic Majesty or The Knights of the Fleece Y1 - 1903 A1 - William Augustus Smith KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on American emulation of Europe with a king and court established in the United States.

PB - Liberty Pub. Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Limanora. The Island of Progress Y1 - 1903 A1 - [John Macmillan] [Brown] (1846-1935) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Detailed eutopia divided into two books, "The Outer or Material Civilisation" and "The Inner Life of a Self-Selected People". Both technically and spiritually advanced, with spiritual advancement more important than technical. The Limanorans can fly due to a combination of technical advances and re-modeling of their bodies. Concerned with overcoming the physicality of the body. Education lasts fifty plus years. See also 1901 and 1920s Brown.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

2nd ed. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. No differences between editions.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Monarch Billionaire Y1 - 1903 A1 - Morrison I[saac] Swift (1856-1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Conflict between capitalists and idealists. The latter barely win, and this success leads to a cooperative eutopia where owners and workers work together for the benefit of all. Gradually all businesses go to the people. See also 1893 and 1911 Swift, his Vicarious Philanthropy. [New York: np, 18?], and his The Evil Religion Does. Boston, MA: The Liberty Press, 1917. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prince Hagen; A Phantasy Y1 - 1903 A1 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Prince Hagen is the heir of the Nibelungs as described by Richard Wagner (1813-83) in his operas. On becoming King of the Nibelungs, he comes to control the world’s economy and deliberately destroys the financial basis of the world. Revolt.

PB - L.C. Page & Co CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1910. Rpt. without the subtitle in his Plays of Protest: The Naturewoman, The Machine, The Second-Story Man, Prince Hagen (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1912), 155-226, with a Preface by Sinclair on i-vi; and New York: Arno Press, 1978. U.K. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1904. Also published as Prince Hagen; A Drama in Four Acts. Privately Ptd. [1921] (First performed 1909); and as Prince Hagen. Little Blue Book No. 633. Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co. [1924].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Southern Cross. A Novel Y1 - 1903 A1 - Hew Stirling KW - Male author AB -

Borderline in that the utopian elements are minimal, with the most sustained a description of the clearing of slums throughout England and their replacement with decent housing for workers.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wind Trust: A Possible Prophecy With an Introduction by Edward Everett Hale Y1 - 1903 A1 - John Snyder KW - Male author AB -

Satirical anti-trust story. A man obtains ownership of the wind and requires everyone using the wind to pay royalties to his company, which makes the stockholders immensely rich. The trust then demands a royalty for breathing, which, in the name of the sacredness of private property, a court approves. In the end a revolution forces the end of the trust.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Greatest Thing in the World" Y1 - 1901 A1 - [William Gilbert] Van Tassel Sutphen (1861-1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor set in 1999. Golf has so swept the U.S. that in 1950 the presidencies of the country and the U.S. Golfing Association have been combined under the latter title. In 1952 Congress passed the Compulsory Golf Bill for all citizens, both men and women, between eighteen and forty-five. Most people played golf full time and could earn a living and pension doing so. Huge technical advances in clubs and balls. Ends with golfing being overthrown in a revolution.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Purple Cloud Y1 - 1901 A1 - M[atthew] P[hipps] Shiel (1865-1947) KW - Creole author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Montserrat British West Indies author AB -

Last man dystopia set only a few years in the future.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977 with an "Introduction" by David G. Hartwell (v-xviii). Rev. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1929. U.S. ed. New York: Vanguard Press, 1930; rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000 with an "Introduction to the Bison Books Edition" by John Clute (v-xii). Originally published serially illus. J. J. Cameron. The Royal Magazine 5 - 6 (January- June 1901): 276-, 358-, 437-, 508-; 37-, 139-112. The Vanguard Press ed. is rpt. abridged illus. Lawrence [Sterne Stevens] (1886-1960). Famous Fantastic Mysteries 10.5 (June 1949): 10-; and with additional material for The Reynolds Morse Foundation, 1979. The 1901 ed. is an expanded version of the serial. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Riallaro. The Archipelago of Exiles Y1 - 1901 A1 - [John Macmillan] [Brown] (1846-1935) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Gulliveriana. The greatest amount of space is devoted to Aleofane ("gem of truth") which has a complex language and code of conduct clearly designed to disguise the truth. Tirralaria is egalitarian, has no law or government, and has constant strife and poverty. A set of islands, collectively known as Loonarie, where people are sent who are dominated by one fixed idea includes Meddla, the Isle of Philanthropy or, more accurately, the Isles of Busybodies; Wotnekst or Godlaw, which has laws about everything; Foolgar, or the Land of Lofty Lineage; Awdyoo, or the Isle of Journalism; Jabberoo, composed of talkers; Vulpia, or diplomats, Witlingen, or jokers; Simiola, or copycats; Polaria, or contradictors; and many others. See also 1903 and 1920s Brown.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

2nd ed. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. Extract rpt. in Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Elizabeth Knox and David Larsen (Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2020), 31-53. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Probable Tales Y1 - 1899 A1 - W[illiam] Stebbing ed. [written by] (1832-1926) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Series of mostly satirical short stories describing countries with one unusual custom.

PB - Longmans, Green CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zerelda. A Story of Love and Death Y1 - 1899 A1 - Louise F. Suddick (1856-1943) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An unusual heaven as a eutopia, but there are higher heavens. The inhabitants come from a variety of planets. Those who die young become adults. Marriage can occur in heaven, and marriage partners will find each other. In this one there is a city with parks, trees, and fountains and without dust, smoke, or unpleasant noises. People work, but even physical labor is not tiring. No harsh weather but some seasonal change. A second city is inhabited by people from many planets and has architecture reflecting those planets. No poor. Those who lived selfish lives are servants as a way of overcoming their past. Female author.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Intra Muros or Within the Walls A Dream of Heaven Y1 - 1898 A1 - Rebecca Ruter Springer (1832-1904) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as a eutopia of perfection where the author says she lived with her family members who had died. 

PB - David C. Cook, Publishing Co CY - Elgin, IL N1 -

[2nd ed?] with a "Supplemental Chapter" and bound with David C. Cook "Jesus the Resurrection Now Or, Our Loved Ones Given Back to Us Here." Elgin, IL: David C. Cook, nd. Rpt. As Within Heaven's Gates. New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 1984. Rpt. as Intra Muros or Within the Walls A Dream of Heaven. London: Arthur F. Bird, 1914 including a “Supplemental Chapter” (137-48) responding to comments and “Jesus the Resurrection Now; Or, Our Loved Ones given back to us here” (149-65) by David C. Cook. 165 pp. Rpt. London: Arthur F. Bird, 1922. Rpt. with one illus., but without the “Supplementary Chapter” or the Cook as Intra Muros: My Dream of Heaven. Forest Grove, OR: Book Searchers, nd. [

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Modern Cooperative Colony (A Whimsey)" Y1 - 1898 A1 - J[ames] W[illiam] Sullivan (b. 1848) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed description of an intentional community outside New York City with an easy commute by train to jobs in the city. No fences or telegraph poles. Separate houses built by individuals, so no uniformity. The people formed different cooperatives to undertake different activities, including building a town hall and running the school. No government; no police. Some satire on journalism.

JF - So The World Goes PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL U1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dawn of Civilisation; or, England in the Nineteenth Century Y1 - 1897 A1 - J[ames] C[armichael] Spence KW - Male author AB -

Future eutopia where all arbitrary laws and taxes have been abolished. See also his non-utopian Freedom--Our Birthright: A Protest Against Taxes. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Eng.: Ptd. by Lambert & Co., 1887.

PB - Watts & Co CY - London N1 -

The cover says that the chapter on marriage had been issued as an official publication of the Legitimation League. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - From World to World. A Novel Y1 - 1896 A1 - D[avid] L[eroy] Stump KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Cooperative system. No money. Farming, manufacturing and distribution, and childcare discussed in detail. A sequel, A Romance of Two Planets. A Sequel to From World to World was scheduled to have been published in May 1897 by World to World Publishing. It either was not published or no copies survive. See also 1913 Stump.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In His Steps. 'What Would Jesus Do?'" Y1 - 1896 A1 - Charles M[onroe] Sheldon (1857-1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

World changed by each person asking the question in the title before acting. See also 1913-14 Sheldon. Non-utopian sequels by Sheldon are In His Steps To-day: WHAT WOULD JESUS DO In Solving the Problems of Present Political, Economic and Social Life? New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1921; and In His Steps Today. Elgin, IL: David C. Cook, [1928]. 

JF - Advance VL - 32.1617 - 33.1647 N1 -

Rpt. Chicago, IL: Advance Publishing Company, [1897]; and New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1935]. An ed. that reproduced most of the Advance series was published ed. John W. Ripley. Topeka, KS: Shawnee County Historical Society, 1967. A comic book version is Al Hartley, In His Steps. Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell, 1977. Spire Christian Comics. A graphic novel version is Martin Powell. In His Steps. Based on the Novel by Charles M. Sheldon. New York: Marvel Comics, 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - It Might Be: A Story of the Future Progress of the Sciences, The Wonderful Advancement in the Methods of Government and the Happy State of the People Y1 - 1896 A1 - H[erbert] E. Swan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia. Machine-governed eutopia. Government buys and sells goods and guarantees quality. Restricted immigration.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Outland Journey Y1 - 1896 A1 - Walter Leon Sawyer (1862-1915) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Children’s book that tells the story of a boy who visits a fairyland that is a satire on capitalism. All the fairies must work constantly.

PB - Copeland and Day CY - Boston, MA U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Altruria Y1 - 1895 A1 - Titus K[eiper] Smith (b 1859) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A Christian intentional community based on cooperation spreads around United States, creating a eutopia. Federal system. Annual elections. Referenda on all important issues. Technologically advanced. Those doing lighter work receive lower pay. See also 1932 Smith.

PB - Altruria Publishing Company CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Better World Y1 - 1895 A1 - E. B. Southwick KW - US author AB -

Extraordinarily detailed eutopia in which the goal of life is happiness for all. The society was founded by women. Women are smarter than men and are generally the leaders, but men and women look and dress alike and are equally strong.

PB - Truth Seeker Publishing Company CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Monomaniacs. A Fable in Finance Y1 - 1895 A1 - Henry [Albert] Seymour (1861-1938) KW - Male author AB -

Satire on capitalism set in Lunarland.

JF - Liberty: A Journal of Anarchist Communism (London) VL - 2.24 N1 -

Rpt. London: William Reeves, 1895. 8 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If Christ Came to Chicago! A Plea for the Union of All Who Love in the Service of All Who Suffer Y1 - 1894 A1 - William T[homas] Stead (1849-1912) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Religious, cooperative eutopia in one chapter entitled "In the Twentieth Century." For a response, see 1894 Hale, “If Jesus Came to Boston.” For non-utopian works using the same trope, see M[ilford] W[riarson] Howard. If Christ Came to Congress. Washington, DC: Author, 1894; Howard, What Christ Saw: Sequel to "If Christ Came to Congress". [Washington, DC]: Author, 1897; and Richard Marsh, A Second Coming. London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1900.

PB - Review of Reviews CY - London N1 -

New ed. as If Christ Came to Chicago! What Would Jesues Do with The Precursor of “In His Steps.” at the head of the title. London: “Review of Reviews” Office, 1899. U.S. ed. Chicago, IL: Laird & Lee, 1894.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Young West; A Sequel to Edward Bellamy's Celebrated Novel, "Looking Backward" Y1 - 1894 A1 - Solomon Schindler (1842-1915) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Education in Bellamy's world but including considerable detail in addition to that on education.

PB - Arena Publishing Company CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - August Episodes: Studies in Sociability and Science. Verses by "The Master of the Revels" Y1 - 1893 A1 - Helen Shipton (1857-1945) A1 - A. C. S[hipton] KW - Female author AB -

An odd book set in an imaginary country called Vinland that has similarities to an out-of-term Oxbridge college that includes both men and women, although the latter are not yet in residence. Life is a round of meetings, lectures, and decorous parties presented as ideal.

PB - A.D. Innes & Co. CY - London U2 -

Illus. W[illiam] Smith and F.H. Oldfield

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In Those Days--or, Life in the Twentieth Century" Y1 - 1893 A1 - [William Edward] [Graham] (1867-1941) A1 - [Austin Douglas] [Graham] (1869-1941) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia set in 1995 based on cooperation and the single tax. Their The Land and the People: Two Chapters from an Unpublished Social Novel. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Co-operative Printing Co., 1891 [Rpt. in Utopian Brisbane, and all other known Writings of 'Austin South'. Comp. and ed. Bill [William James] Metcalf and Daryll Bellingham (Nathan, Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Australian School of Environmental Studies, Griffith University, 2003), unpaged] includes some of the same material as the novel but focuses particularly on the theories of Henry George and his single tax. For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A League of Justice or Is It Right To Rob Robbers? Y1 - 1893 A1 - Morrison I[saac] Swift (1856-1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. A league of men who take from the rich and give to the poor gradually transform society. Start a free newspaper (first monthly, then weekly, then daily) in all the major languages of the world. Attack lawyers, abolish political parties, improve education, and bring about a revolution. See also 1903 and 1911 Swift, his Vicarious Philanthropy. [New York: np, 18?], and his The Evil Religion Does. Boston, MA: The Liberty Press, 1917.

PB - The Commonwealth Society CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Original Comic Opera in Two Acts Entitled Utopia (Limited); or, The Flowers of Progress Y1 - 1893 A1 - W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert (1836-1911) A1 - Arthur [Seymour] Sullivan (1842-1900) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on utopia.  See David Eden, ed. Utopia Limited. A Centenary Review of the Year 1893. Ed. for the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society. Coventry, Eng.: The Sir Arthur Sullivan Society, 1993. O

PB - Chappell & Co CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Utopia Limited or The Flowers of Progress. London: Cassell & Co., 1911. For additional textual material, see John Wolfson, Final Curtain: The Last Gilbert and Sullivan Operas Including the unpublished rehearsal librettos and twenty unpublished Gilbert lyrics. London: Chappell & Company in Association with André Deutsch, 1976. 

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Rpt. as Utopia Limited or The Flowers of Progress. London: Cassell & Co., 1911. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Two and Two Make Four. Being the Review of Review Annual, 1893 Y1 - 1893 A1 - William T[homas] Stead (1849-1912) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel is made up of reflections on current conditions with strong spiritualist elements plus adventure and romance. At the end a wealthy “modern woman” has used her wealth to create an ideal society on and around her estate, although, of course, without changing the class structure.

PB - “Review of Reviews” Office CY - London U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreams of the Dead Y1 - 1892 A1 - Edward Stanton Huntington (1841-95) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex spiritualist novel that includes both heaven and hell as eutopian and dystopia. Strongly influenced by Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772). Includes criticisms of Theosophy and Christian Science.

PB - Lee & Shepard CY - Boston, MA U3 -

Edward Stanton [pseud.]

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Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Earthquake; A Story of To-Day Y1 - 1892 A1 - Lucius A. Stockwell KW - Male author AB -

Mostly a condemnation of capitalism from a populist perspective, but it includes a short description of desirable reforms and the procedures for achieving them.

PB - Nonconformist Publishing Company CY - Indianapolis, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Island Y1 - 1892 A1 - Edward J. Austen A1 - Louise V[escelius] Sheldon KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which a ship is wrecked on an unknown island that turns out to be owned by one of the sailors. He imposes a capitalist system until the others build a raft and leave him behind. On the single tax, see Henry George, Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929. 

PB - Fels Fund of America CY - Cincinnati, OH N1 -

Rpt. illus. in The Cosmopolitan 14.3 (January 1893): 365-84. Rpt. without the author’s names as The Lost Island with a Conclusion by William Lloyd Garrison as The Sterling Weekly 2.3 (February 13, 1897): entire issue with “Concluding Chapter” (31-35). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tableau; or, Heaven as a Republic Y1 - 1892 A1 - John George Schwahn KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An allegory with one chapter (212-31) that details the eutopia achieved when reason and humanity final win over Christianity and ignorance. Everyone working and the use of steam and electricity to run machines ensures much leisure time.

PB - Press of Franklin Printing Co CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Yorl of the Northmen; or, the Fate of the English Race; Being the Romance of a Monarchical Utopia Y1 - 1892 A1 - [Charles Wicksteed] [Armstrong] (1871-ca 1963) KW - Brazilian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Spanish author AB -

Feudal eutopia brought about through eugenics. Cottage industries but a few factories are allowed under strict health regulations. Traditional gender roles. See also 1936 Armstrong, Paradise Found; his The Only Way: A Suggestion as to the True Solution to the Problems of Over-population, Degeneration, Unemployment and the Menace of War. London: Edgar G. Dunstan, [1921?]; his “A Eugenic Colony: A Proposal for South America.” The Eugenics Review 25.2 (ns. 6.2) (July 1933): 91-97; his The Only Way: A Suggestion as to the True Solution to the Problems of Over-population, Degeneration, Unemployment and the Menace of War. London: Edgar G. Dunstan, [1921?]; and his The Survival of the Unfittest. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1927. Rev. and enl. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1931.

PB - Reeves and Turner CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 3: 317-389. Editor's notes, 315, 399-400.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brethren of Mt. Atlas: Being the First Part of an African Theosophical Story Y1 - 1891 A1 - Hugh E[dward] M[illington] Stutfield F.R.G.S. (1858-1929) KW - Male author AB -

The novel is a theosophical adventure story that involves the discovery of a eutopian community in northern Africa led by adepts.

PB - Longmans, Green, & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - History of a World of Immortals Without a God: Translated from an Unpublished Manuscript in the Library of a Continental University Y1 - 1891 A1 - [James William] [Barlow] (1826-1913) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia set on Venus (known as Hesperia). Life is cyclical in that people grow old, grow young, and then grow old again, and society is based on this fact. No reproduction. No death from natural causes.

PB - William McGee CY - Dublin, Ireland N1 -

Later ed. under the author's name entitled The Immortals' Great Quest: Translated from an Unpublished Manuscript in the Library of a Continental University. London: Smith, Elder, 1909. 

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Later ed. under the author's name entitled The Immortals' Great Quest

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Antares Skorpios [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vetulia: or, Going to the Bottom of Things Y1 - 1891 A1 - William Wye Smith (1827-1917) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Utopia based on long life, which is presented negatively, but other aspects of society are presented positively.

PB - Dudley & Burns CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

Part first published as "Vetulia." New Dominion Monthly (August 1875): 65-73. A note in the book says expanded in Advertiser (London, ON, Canada) (1880), but a search of this daily newspaper failed to find it. Rev. for book publication.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dr. Leetes Letter to Julian West" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Solomon Schindler (1842-1915) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pro-1888 Bellamy eutopia. Julian West, the protagonist in Looking Backward, has become an unthinking and uninformed critic of the future Boston and starts a newspaper modeled on papers of the late nineteenth century to express his views. The letter explains why the newspaper failed so completely.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Sinner" Y1 - 1890 A1 - H. Elton Smith KW - Male author AB -

Anti-utopian story set some time into the future of 1888 Bellamy when Nationalism has become authoritarian. A throwback to capitalism rallies opposition, which leads to war.

JF - Overland Monthly VL - 2nd ser. 15.90 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Backward; and What I Saw Y1 - 1890 A1 - W. W. Satterlee KW - US author AB -

Written against 1888-Bellamy and Henry George, the theorist of the single tax. The protagonist is R.E. Former and other names are similar. Proposes standard reforms of the times. For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

PB - [Harrison and Smith] CY - [Minneapolis, MN] VL - 2nd ed. N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Miss Worden's Hero. A Novel Y1 - 1890 A1 - H[enry] B[arnard] Salisbury KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard socialist eutopia with stress on the revolution. The eutopia is described as similar to 1888 Bellamy. Money is in the form of a card which indicates the amount in units of hours, and change is given in coins that represent minutes and seconds. Machinery replaces most menial labor. Everyone is polite. Lots of gardens. It is said that there is no government, but that is not explained.

PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. under the author's original and preferred title as The Birth of Freedom; A Socialist Novel. New York: Humboldt Pub. Co., 1890. 3rd. ed. New York: Humboldt Pub. Co., 1890. Also published as "The Birth of Freedom." The Nationalist 3.4 - 8/9 (November 1890 - March/April 1891): 217-42, 296-324, 380-97, 439-61, 511-57.

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Rpt. under the author's original and preferred title as The Birth of Freedom; A Socialist Novel. New York: Humboldt Pub. Co., 1890. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Morgante the Lesser: His Notorious Life and Wonderful Deeds. Arranged and Narrated for the First Time Y1 - 1890 A1 - [Edward] [Martyn] (1859-1923) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire, including one on a trip to Hell.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein CY - London U3 -

Sirius [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - One of "Berrian's" Novels Y1 - 1890 A1 - Mrs. C[harles] H. Stone KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

"This story, in part, takes the conditions in 'Looking Backward' as its setting, and it will be remembered that 'Berrian' was the novelist of that future time" (vi). Love story set in 1997 that sets out some of the personal problems that were faced in achieving the eutopia. The three mentioned are a woman who wanted to trade on her beauty rather than work, the need for "psychic" treatment for atavism, and a temporarily successful conspiracy against the emerging eutopia.

PB - Welch, Fracker Company CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Saved by Nationalism” Y1 - 1890 A1 - H[enry] B[arnard] Salisbury KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story of a village under capitalism in which a few end up wealthy and the rest become poorer and poorer. This is contrasted, in a final section, with the same village under Nationalism twenty years later when it has been revitalized.

JF - The Nationalist VL - 3.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sub Sole or Under the Sun. Missionary Adventures in the Great Sahara. By the Right Reverend Artegall Smith, D.D. With an Introduction by the Rev. Philip Norton Y1 - 1890 A1 - [Rev.] [Philip] [Norton] KW - Male author AB -

Lost race. The eutopia consists of two chapters (129-52) describing an isolated community of science and technology in Africa in which the Wandering Jew is converted to Christianity. The community is a remnant of the Ten Lost Tribes and holds the Ark of the Covenant. The community has something like Bacon's Salomon's House. Food and cloth are produced chemically from sand and gravel. Anti-Roman Catholic.

PB - James Nisbet and Co./Eben[enze]r Baylis and Son CY - London/Worcester, Eng. U3 -

Right Reverend Aretgall Smith D.D. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sunlight Lay Across My Bed" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Olive [Emilie Albertina] Schreiner (1855-1920) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Hell is depicted as a seeming eutopia but revealed as a dystopia where everyone tries to injure everyone else. Some description of Heaven.

JF - The New Review VL - 2.11 - 12 N1 -

Rpt in her Dreams (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891), 133-82.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great War Syndicate Y1 - 1889 A1 - Frank R[ichard] Stockton (1834-1902) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future war story that ends with the suggestion of a eutopia of peace and prosperity. As a war between the U.S. and Britain threatens, a war the U.S. will lose, a syndicate of rich capitalists agrees a contract with the U.S. to conduct the war, which they win by using new technology. Most of the book is about the war and the technology used.

PB - P.F. Collier CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1899. Rpt. in The Novels and Stories of Frank R. Stockton. Volume 6 The Great Syndicate, Etc. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900), 3-128; and separately Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Koradine. A Prophetic Story; Also, Creative Life, A special letter to young girls Y1 - 1889 A1 - Alice B[unker] Stockham M.D. (1833-1912) A1 - Lida Hood Talbot KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The book was designed to show the ideal growth and education of a girl from childhood to womanhood, including her sexual education. The novel, in letters from the girl Koradine, includes a description of an intentional community putting its ideals into practice. See the discussion in Beryl Satter, Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 138-45). 

PB - Alice B. Stockham & Co. CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. as Koradine Letters. A Girl’s Own Story. Chicago, IL: Alice B. Stockham & Co., 1893 without Creative Life. Some copies have one title on the cover and the other on the title page. Creative Life has been excised from all copies that I have been able to examine, but it was published separately Chicago, IL: Alice B. Stockham Co, 1896. It was then reprinted new, rev., and enl. ed. Illus. Bertha L. Corbett. Chicago, IL: The Progress Co., 1904 and partly concerns basic information on reproduction with illustrations of the uterus and the “mammary gland,” and partly on suitable activities for women, including occupations and exercise, with illustrations of the appropriate clothes. It is available at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007683219

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Voyage of Will Rogers to the South Pole Y1 - 1888 A1 - Christopher Spotswood ed. [written by] (1813/14-90) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race at a warm South Pole. People lead a simple, good life with few rules and almost no government. No money. Idleness is considered a crime but not directly punished.

PB - Ptd. at the "Examiner" and "Tasmanian" Office CY - Lauceston, TAS, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Week in the Future" Y1 - 1888 A1 - Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

ence, C[atherine] H[elen] (1825-1910). “A Week in the Future.” The Centennial Magazine: An Australian Monthly 1 (December - July): 388-93; 468-79; 552-63; 657-65; 731-40; 828-32; 899-908 [A, ATL, PSt]. Rpt. ed. Lesley Durrell Ljungdahl. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Hale & Iremonger, 1987, which is heavily illustrated with material from the period  of the first publication; and Mt. Waverley, VIC, Australia: Aurealis Books/Chimaera Publications, 2010, with an “Introduction” by Lucy Sussex (ii-iv). The manuscript of the book is at the State Library of South Australia. A, ATL, PSt

Eutopia set in London in 1988. Everyone lives in “Associated homes” and works a six-hour day mostly in cooperatives. Population limited, primarily through birth control. No pollution. Strict control on both immigration and emigration. Eugenics with feeble-minded children killed at birth and “criminal lunatics” euthanized (36-37, 115). Women work equally with men in all occupations. Ireland now part of the United Commonwealth of Great Britain and Ireland, but all four component units have some independent political institutions. Based in part on the writings of Jane Hume Clapperton, particularly her Scientific Meliorism and the Evolution of Happiness. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. See also 1888 Clapperton. See also 1879 and 1884 Spence. 

JF - The Centennial Magazine: An Australian Monthly VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. ed. Lesley Durrell Ljungdahl. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Hale & Iremonger, 1987, which is heavily illustrated with material from the period of the first publication; and Mt. Waverley, VIC, Australia: Aurealis Books/Chimaera Publications, 2010, with an "Introduction" by Lucy Sussex (ii-iv). The manuscript of the book is at the State Library of South Australia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "White or Yellow? A Story of the Race-war of A.D. 1908" Y1 - 1888 A1 - [William] [Lane] (1861-1917) KW - Australian author KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Racist dystopia. Heroic Australian whites fight the Chinese, whose immigration has produced the dystopia. See also 1892 Lane.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians Y1 - 1887 A1 - [Franz] [Hartmann] [M.D.] (1838-1912) KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

A Rosicrucian eutopia in the Swiss alps. See also 1890 Hartmann.

PB - Occult Publishing Co CY - Boston, MA N1 -

2nd ed. as With the Adepts: An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians. London: Theosophical Publishing Co., [1910]. Rpt. Berwick, ME: Ibis Press, 2003 with an “Introduction” by R.A. Gilbert (ix-xx).

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A Student of Occultism [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Three Dreams in a Desert" Y1 - 1887 A1 - Olive [Emilie Albertina] Schreiner (1855-1920) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

A very brief conclusion to a series of dreams depicting women's struggle for equality is set in a future of gender equality.

JF - The Fortnightly Review VL - 48 N1 -

Rpt. in her Dreams (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891), 67-85.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Atla: A Story of the Lost Island Y1 - 1886 A1 - Mrs. J. Gregory Smith KW - Female author AB -

Atlantis as a eutopia. Much romance and adventure. Atla is a child from the North who is born as her mother dies as the result of a shipwreck on the shores of Atlantis.

PB - Harper & Brothers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Bread Riots and What Came of Fair Trade Y1 - 1885 A1 - [John] S[aint] L[oe] Strachey (1860-1927) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia brought about by protective tariffs.

PB - J.W. Arrowsmith CY - Bristol, Eng. N1 -

Serialized in The Daily Mail (1885). Rpt. with minor revisions and with the author's name as J. St. Loe Strachey as The Great Bread Riots: A Political Romance. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1903.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Detroit of the Future Y1 - 1884 A1 - Lyman E. Stowe KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem describing a eutopian Detroit of the future. There is an article on the book, Harry Massie, “Prophetic book envisions Detroit as Utopia in 2100.” Ann Arbor News (October 8, 1989): A9.

JF - Poetical Drifts of Thought or, Problems of Progress. Treating Upon the Mistakes of the Church--The Mistakes of the Atheist Infidel and Materialist--God Not the Maker of the Universe--Progress the Evidence of a Merciful, But Not All Powerful, God. Reconciliation of Science and Christianity. The Formation of a Solar System--Evolution--Human Progress--Possibilities of the Future--Including Spicy Explanatory Matter in Prose. Embellished with Nearly 200 Illustrations. Together With a Number of Fine Poems On Popular Subjects Including Sketches of the City of the Straits--Past, Present and Future PB - Lyman E. Stowe, Publisher CY - Detroit, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Edwin Abbott] [Abbott] (1838-1926) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Primarily an exercise in geometry using an imaginary country, but the novel includes commentaries, some satirical, on art, eugenics, religion, class, the position of women, and other contemporary issues. For a 21st century use of the idea, see Steve Tomasula, VAS: An Opera in Flatland. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 2002. A humorous comment is Anne Toole. “Secrets of Flatland.” Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multuiverse. Ed. L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2013), 172-77. Others who have written sequels to Flatland include Dionys Burger, Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Space and an Expanded Universe. Trans. Cornelie J. Reinboldt. New York: Thomas J. Crowell, 1965 (Originally published in Dutch in 1957); Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946), “Message Found in a Copy of Flatland.” The 57th Franz Kafka (New York: Ace Books, 1983), 224-34; and Rucker, The Sex Sphere. New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, 1983; A[lexander] K[eewatin] Dewdney, The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World. New York: Poseidon Press, 1984; and Ian Stewart, Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2001. See also 1907 Hinton and 1965 Calisher.

PB - Seeley & Co CY - London N1 -

2nd and rev. ed. London: Seeley & Co., 1884. Rpt. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991; and illus. Frank Mayo. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1995, with an “Introduction” by Gregory Benford (ix-xxvii). See also The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. With Introduction and Notes by Ian Stewart. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2002. Other recent eds. are ed. Rosemary Jann. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2006; and ed. William F. Lindgren and Thomas F. Banchoff with Notes and Commentary. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press/Washington, DC: The Mathematical Association of America, 2010.

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A. Square [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The King's Men. A Tale of Tomorrow Y1 - 1884 A1 - Robert Grant (1852-1940) A1 - John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890) A1 - John T[yler] Wheelwright (1856-1925) A1 - Fredric Jesup Stimson (1855-1943) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the English monarchy has been overthrown and moved to the U.S. and the aristocracy has been dispossessed. This leads to a Britain dominated by demagogues. Political struggle results in a return to a more balanced system. Mostly romance and political intrigue.

PB - Charles Scribner's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975.

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J.S. of Dale [pseud. of Fredric Jesup Stimson]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Republic. Founded on the Natural and Inalienable Rights of Man, and Containing the Outlines of Such a Government As the Patriot Fathers Contemplated and Formulated in the Declaration of Independence, When Struggling for Liberty Y1 - 1883 A1 - E. J. Schellhous M.D. KW - US author AB -

Essay including a detailed description of a revised political system that will bring about a better world. Stress on popular government, votes for women, publicly owned utilities, and limitations on corporations.

PB - Bacon and Company CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

Also published New York: John W. Lovell & Co., 1883.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Conscientia: or, Latter-Day Pilgrims Y1 - 1882 A1 - W[illiam] Alexander Smith KW - Male author AB -

Allegory. The main character is Ernest Endeavour. Trip through the usual landscape with a standard set of characters. Conscientia is the goal and a eutopia. Even the air entering is heated to eliminate contaminants like "germs of Materialistic thought." The inhabitants of Conscientia include Common Sense, Industry, Solidity, True Genius, etc.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Housekeeping Hereafter" Y1 - 1881 A1 - J[ohn] V[an der Zee] Sears (1835-1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia applied to the home. Sears was at the Brook Farm Community and wrote about his time there. See his My Friends at Brook Farm. New York: Desmond FitzGerald, Inc., 1912. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975.

JF - The Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA) VL - 48.287 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mars Revealed; or, Seven Days in the Spirit World: Containing an account of the spirit's trip to Mars, and his return to earth. What he saw and heard on Mars. With Vivid and Thrilling Descriptions of Its Majestic Scenery; Its Mountains, Its Mines; Its Valleys, Rivers, Lakes, and Seas; Its People, Temples of Learning, Worship, Religion, Music, Manners, Customs, Laws; Its Highly Cultivated and Productive Lands, Together With Its Beautiful Parks, and Its Delightful Paradise. Being a work full of diamonds of thought, and of absorbing interest. A thrilling poem, in beautiful prose Y1 - 1880 A1 - [Henry A.] [Gaston] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Spiritualism. Children taught politeness and grace and obedience to their elders. Useful knowledge is emphasized.

PB - Pub. for the writer, by A.L. Bancroft and Company CY - San Francisco, CA U3 -

A Spirit Yet in the Flesh [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Good Spirit of Space; Or, an Unappreciated Genius” Y1 - 1879 A1 - J[ames] F. Sullivan KW - Male author AB -

Satirical poem on an overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Hood’s Comic Annual for 1879. Thirty Pages of Illustrations By Eminent Artists Engraved By the Brothers Dalziel PB - Pub. by the Proprietors at the Fun Office CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hair Trunk or The Ideal Commonwealth: An Extravaganza Y1 - 1879 A1 - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) ED - Roger G. Swearingen KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire on utopian projections.

PB - Humming Earth CY - Kilkerran, Scot. N1 -

First publication of an unfinished novel. MS at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA HM 2411.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Handfasted Y1 - 1879 A1 - Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Feminist eutopia focusing on trial marriage set in the US. The Commonwealth of Columba existing in an isolated valley has developed "handfasting" or trial marriage. The word handfasted comes from Walter Scott's novel The Monastery, where it was a promise of fidelity for a year and a day. In Columba it can be extended to two or three years and marriage cannot take place without it. Generally an egalitarian society. See also 1884 and 1888-89 Spence.

PB - Penguin Books of Australia CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Commune in 1880. Downfall of a Republic. Y1 - 1877 A1 - A. Spectator [pseud.] AB -

Anti-radical, anti-labor dystopia showing the negative effects of labor winning.

PB - The American News Co. CY - New York U1 -

1877 1890 at the head of the title

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A. Spectator [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Manatitlans; or a Record of Recent Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S.A. Y1 - 1877 A1 - [Elton Romeo] [Smilie] (1818-89) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A particularly tedious and poorly written lost race novel focusing on pre-Christian settlers from Europe and Asia in the mountains of South America. The eutopian aspects focus on the Manititlan's education in purity and goodness. Continued in his Investigations and Experience of M. Shawtinbach, at Saar Soong, Sumatra. A Ret or Sequel to “The Manatitlans. San Francisco, CA: Joseph Winterburn & Co., 1879. W3, 4996.

PB - Ptd. at the Riverside Press CY - Cambridge, MA N1 -

Also published Buenos Ayres, Argentina: Calla Derécho, 1877.

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R. Elton Smile, Pro-scriptor [pseud.]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Beulah Land" Y1 - 1876 A1 - Edgar P. Stites (1836-1921) A1 - John R. Sweney (1837-99) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as a eutopia. Beulah Land is from Isaiah 62:4.

UR - http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/e/beulah2.htm. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia" Y1 - 1869 A1 - C[harles] W[arren] Stoddard (1843-1909) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem describing an idyllic life on a South Pacific island that appears to be inhabited solely by the poet and his man Friday.

JF - Overland Monthly (San Francisco, CA) VL - 2.6 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thorndale or The Conflict of Opinions Y1 - 1857 A1 - William [Henry] Smith (1808-72) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The eutopia is spread throughout the book. It is a fairly conservative one aiming at improved community and family life. As it appears it is critiqued by those, generally more conservative, who believe it impossible. The author’s Gravenhurst, or Thoughts on Good and Evil. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Sons, 1862. 2nd ed. with the additional subtitle Knowing and Feeling. A Contribution to Psychology with a Memoir of the Author by his wife (3-121) and “Contributions by William Smith to Blackwood’s Magazine” (122-25). Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Son, 1875 supplements the positions taken. Gravenhurst (127-329) and Knowing and Feeling (331-442).

PB - William Blackwood and Sons CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

2nd ed. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858. U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Ticknor and Fields, 1859.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Southern Revolution: A Chapter in the History of the United States of South Africa. 1894-1934 Y1 - 1853 A1 - Jaapie Ahmet de Villers Smith KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia. Law passed disenfranchising all "coloureds"; law passed excluding English from schools; law passed requiring "coloureds" to have surgery to enhance their intelligence; law passed excluding all "coloureds" from school after age ten to force them onto the labour market. Coloureds became more attractive. Law passed that all students matriculated in university get the vote and coloureds enrolled. By 1930 a majority of voters are coloured. Discriminatory laws repealed except that brain enhancement was prohibited to whites because they had used their intellectual superiority poorly in the past.

PB - Darter Bros. & Walton CY - Cape Town, South Africa U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Visit to the Moon" Y1 - 1852 A1 - Jocundus Steelnib [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia with no money and no lawyers. People are presented as still having faults and problems.

JF - Freaks of Imagination; or, A Batch of Original Tales, Chiefly Facetious PB - W. Kent and Co. & Dawsons & Sons CY - London U3 -

Steelnib, Jocundus [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Voyages, Adventures, and Miraculous Escapes of Raphael Scott, Being a Full and Authentic Account of His Villainous Betrayal and Abduction (By His Uncle, Who had been Appointed His Guardian) on Board the Merchant Ship Gazelle, of Philadelphia, Which Vessel, After Being at Sea Twenty Days, Was Plundered by a Piratical Craft Commanded by a Widely Known and Much Dreaded Buccaneer Chief, Miles! Together With a Complete History of a Romantic Nation of Pirates!! Now Residing on a Beautiful Island, Called The Isle of Happiness, Situated South of Cuba. Also, a Correct Statement of the Long Imprisonment and Deplorable Sufferings of Miss Edda Cramer, a Young Lady of Extraordinary Personal Beauty, Who Was for Seven Months Missing From New York City, and of Whose Fate Nothing Could Be Learned, Until She Was Nobly Rescued By the Hero of this Truly Interesting Work. To Which Is Added, Some Startling Passages in the Life of Charles Scattergood, a Young Man Likewise Found Among the Pirates, By Whom He Was Picked Up in the Middle of the Ocean, Where He Had Drifted in an Open Boat, In Which He Had Been Placed by a Cold-Hearted, Unfeeling Brother Y1 - 1850 A1 - Raphael Scott [pseud.] AB -

Includes a brief depiction of a pirate’s eutopia on an island in the Caribbean with the stress on their law to protect young girls.

PB - E.E. Barclay CY - Philadelphia, PA U2 -

Illus.

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Scott, Raphael [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Amazonian Republic Recently Discovered in the Interior of Peru. By Ex-Midshipman Timothy Savage, B.C. Member of the Philosophical Society of Baltimore and of the Antiquarian Academy of Staten Island Y1 - 1842 A1 - Timothy Savage [pseud?] KW - US author AB -

Primarily a utopian satire. A developed country with the government the same as the United States. Effeminate men. Some material on a new religion.

PB - Samuel Colman CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as The Amazonian Republic (1842). A Facsimile Reproduction With an Introduction by Joel Nydahl (v-xvi). Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1976.

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Savage, Timothy [pseud.?]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Assassins. A Fragment of a Romance" Y1 - 1840 A1 - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) ED - Mrs. [Mary Wollstonecraft] Shelley (1797-1851) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The Wandering Jew discovers an isolated Christian sect that is a eutopia of innocence and purity founded on love.

JF - Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments PB - E. Moxon CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. in The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Roger Ingram and Walter E. Peck. 10 vols. (London: Published For The Julian Editions by Ernest Benn, 1929), 6: 155-71; in Shelley’s Prose or The Trumpet of Prophecy. Ed. David Lee Clark (London: Fourth Estate, 1988), 144-54; and in The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. E[ugene] B[ernard] Murray (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1993), 1: 124-39. Editorial Commentary 384-90.

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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 - The Partisan Leader. A Tale of the Future Y1 - 1836 A1 - [Nathaniel Beverley] [Tucker] (1784-1851) KW - Male author KW - US author PB - [Duff Green] CY - [Washington, DC] VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. as by Beverley Tucker of Virginia. The Partisan Leader. Secretly Printed in Washington (in the year 1836) by Duff Green, for Circulation in the Southern States [A Key to the Disunion Conspiracy at the head of the title]. 2 vols. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1861; reissued as 2 vols. in 1 in 1861; rpt. Richmond, VA: West and Johnson, 1862; rpt. as The Partisan Leader. Ed. Carl Bridenbaugh. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933, with a “Preface” (vii) and an “Introduction” (ix-xxxiv), and “Notes” (275-77) by the editor; and as The Partisan Leader. Secretly Printed in Washington (in the year 1836) by Duff Green, for Circulation in the Southern States but Afterwards Suppressed [A Key to the Disunion Conspiracy at the head of the title]. Upper Saddle River, NJ: The Gregg Press, 1968, with a brief biography of Tucker (unpaged); and from the 3rd impression of the as by Nathaniel Beverley Tucker. The Partisan Leader: A Tale of the Future. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1971 with an “Introduction” (vii-xxiii) by C. Hugh Holman. 

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By Edward William Sidney [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Doctor &c. Y1 - 1834 A1 - Robert Southey (1774-1843) ED - John Wood Warter KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Chapter CCXLI describes the doctor’s utopia, called Columbia, which is a monarchy with an aristocracy and a Parliament elected by universal (male) suffrage.

PB - Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans CY - London VL - New ed. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Another Glimpse of the Future" Y1 - 1831 A1 - Salem [pseud.] AB -

Critique of 1830 Bluffdale that says the dystopian aspects of his future did not happen by showing Alton, Illinois, 300 years in the future when it is a large city. Focus on a large building with lecture halls, art galleries, a museum, and observatories. There are still rich and poor, but everyone was adequately clothed, fed, and housed. Pervasive religion with a wide range of denominations and a place of worship for every thousand inhabitants plus other places where people met. Stress on cleanliness, simplicity, and order.

JF - Illinois Monthly Magazine (Vandalia, IL) VL - 1.12 U3 -

Salem [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage to the Island of Philosophers. Part 1st, Containing an account of the Island and its Inhabitants, together with the Incidents which occurred there, during the sojourn of the Writer. Veni, Vidi, Scripsi Y1 - 1830 A1 - Caesario San Blas, Bachelor [pseud.] KW - US author AB -

Satire on philosophers in a visit to an isolated island. Diversity of dress and architecture. City moated and walled to keep cattle from disturbing the reflections of the philosophers. Rampant hypochondria. No women or children, and the absence of women is considered essential. At the end the philosophers think that they are threatened by Amazons from another island; it is not clear whether or not they are.

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San Blas, Caesario, Bachelor [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Unknown Region" Y1 - 1827 A1 - Herbert Trevelyan ED - Piers Shafton Gent. KW - Male author AB -

Satire. The "unknown region" is Russell Square in London.

JF - Sketches from Oblivion, Being the Remains of Herbert Trevelyan, Esqr PB - Hurst, Chance & Co. CY - London N1 -

Another ed. as by Pierce Shafton, Gent. "The Unknown Region." Vagaries in Quest of the Wild and the Whimsical (London: Ptd. for J. Andrews, 1827), 181-98. L has both names with no clear indication of which is the pseudonym.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Final Chorus" Y1 - 1822 A1 - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The Earth enters a new Golden Age.      

JF - Hellas A Lyrical Drama PB - Charles and James Ollier CY - London UR - http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174388 N1 -

Rpt. as Hellas. A Lyrical Drama. Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1822. Ed. Thomas J. Wise. London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1886. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975; as Hellas A Lyrical Drama. A Reprint of the Original Edition Published in 1822 With the Author’s Prologue and Notes in Various Hands. Ed. Thomas J. Wise. London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1886, with an Editor’s Preface on xi-xxiv, “Notes on Hellas by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley” on xxvii-xxx, “Note on the Prologue to Hellas: by Richard Garnett on xxxiii-xxxiv, Shelley’s Prologue on xxxv-xlv, Editor’s Notes on the Prologue to Hellas on xlvii-li, “Errata for Hellas on liii-lviii, Notes on 55-58, and “Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon” on 59-60; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975. See also Hellas: A Lyrical Drama. The Choruses Set to Music by William Christian Selle, Mus. Doc. London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1886; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Epipsychidion: Verses Addressed to the Noble and Unfortunate Lady Emilia V--- Now Imprisoned In the Convent of ---- Y1 - 1821 A1 - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Love poem describing a lover's eutopia on an island.

PB - C. and J. Ollier CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Epipsychidion. A Type Fac-simile Reprint of the Original Edition First Published in 1821. With an Introduction by The Rev. Stofford A. Brooke, M.A. And a Note by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Ed. Robert Alfred Potts. London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1887; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975; and in The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley Including Materials Never Before Printed in Any Edition of the Poems. Ed. Thomas Hutchinson (London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1919), 405-19, with “Fragments Connected with Epipsychidion” (419-24) and “Notes on the Text and Its Punctuation” (893); in Shelley’s Poetry and Prose. Authoritative Texts Criticism. Ed. Donald H. Reiman and Sharon B. Powers (New York: W.W. Norton, 1977), 373-88; 2nd ed. Ed. Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002), 390-407; and in The Poems of Shelley. 4 vols. Ed. Michael Rossington, Jack Donovan, and Kelvin Everest. With the assistance of Andrew Lacey and Laura Barlow (London/New York: Routledge, 2014), 4: 126-172, with introductory notes on 115-125, and “Appendix: Fragments connected with Epipsychidion” (173-190).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Symzonia; Voyage of Discovery Y1 - 1820 A1 - Captain Adam Seaborn [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia. Land in the center of the earth. A society ruled by the Good, the Wise, and the Useful. The dull, the indolent, and the selfish had been driven out.

PB - Ptd. by J. Seymour CY - New-York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1965; and Gainesville, FL: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1975. The book is almost universally attributed to John Cleves Symmes (1780-1829), for whom it is named, but the attribution has been seriously questioned--see "The Authorship of Symzonia." Science-Fiction Studies 3 (March 1976): 98-99; and Hans-Joachim Lang and Benjamin Lease, "The Authorship of Symzonia: The Case for Nathaniel Ames." New England Quarterly 48.2 (June 1975): 241-52.

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By Captain Adam Seaborn [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Christian Policy in Full Practice Among the People of Harmony, A Town in the State of Pennsylvania, North America; As Described in Melish's Travels through the United States, and Birkbeck's Notes on a Journey in America. To Which are subjoined, a Concise view of the Spencean System of Agrarian Fellowship, and some Observations on the manifest Similarity between the Principles of that System and of the truly Fraternal and Christianly Establishment of the Harmonists Y1 - 1818 A1 - [Thomas] [Evans] (b. 1763) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Christian eutopia in which all land and other major goods are public. Written constitution. Politically divided into small parishes or districts. The first thirteen pages (of sixteen) are a description of the Harmony Community in the United States founded by the German religious leader George Rapp (1757-1847). See also 1816 and 1817 Evans.

PB - Hay and Turner CY - London U3 -

By A Spencean Philanthropist [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Constantine and Eugene, or an Evening at Mount Vernon. A Political Dialogue Y1 - 1818 A1 - [Charles] [Kelsall] [?] KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed legal system with some political material. Freedom of religion with some proportional representation of religions.

PB - Ptd. for the author, by P.J. DeMat CY - Brussels, Belgium U3 -

By Junius Secundus [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. In the Stanza of Spenser Y1 - 1817 A1 - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Poem. Includes a eutopia inspired by the French Revolution and the writings of William Godwin (1756-1836). The eutopia occurs throughout the text and stresses liberty, equality, and the emancipation of women.

PB - Ptd. for Sherwood, Neely, & Jones and C. and J. Ollier CY - London N1 -

This was the original edition which was withdrawn and slightly revised because the printer objected to the suggestion of incest and the radicalism of parts of the text. It was rpt. as The Revolt of Islam; A Poem in Twelve Cantos. London: Ptd. for C. and J. Ollier, 1817 [Some copies have 1818 as the publication date] and was known under this title for some time, with the original title being restored in late 20th century editions. Rpt. as “Laon and Cythna or the Revolution of the Golden City [Usually known as 'The Revolt of Islam' 1817]”. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Volume II 1814-1817. Ed. Neville Rogers. 4 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1975), 99-270, including “Laon and Cyntha: Rejected Passages” (265-270) with “Note by Mary Shelley On Loan and Cyntha [The Revolt of Islam]” (270-73) and “Notes” (360-95); as “Laon and Cythna; Or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. In the Stanza of Spenser.” Ed. Jack Donovan. The Poems of Shelley. Volume Two 1817-1819. Ed. Kelvin Everest and Geoffrey Matthews (Hatlow, Essex, Eng.: Pearson Educational, 2000), 10-265, with an [“Introduction”] by the editor (10-29), extensive footnotes throughout, and “Fragments from the L&C Notebooks.” Ed. Jack Donovan (261-65); and as “Laon and Cythna; Or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. In the Stanza of Spenser.” Ed. Michael J. Neth. The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Volume Three. Ed. Neil Fraisat and Nora Crook (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), 109-320, with “Commentary” by Michael J. Neth (550-941), including “Supplements: Rejected Opening and Ancillary Fragments for Laon and Cyntha” (908-941) “Historical Collation” (993-1061), Mary Shelley’s “Note on The Revolt of Islam” (1073-75), “The Revision of Laon and Cythna to The Revolt of Islam (1077-88), and “Shelley’s List of Errata for Laon and Cythna/The Revolt of Islam (1082). See also The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts. A Facsimile Edition, with Full Transcripts and Scholarly Apparatus. Ed. Donald H Reiman. Volume XIII Drafts from Laon and Cythna Facsimiles of Bodleian MSS. Shelley ADDS. e 14 and ADDS. e. 19. Ed. Tatsuo Tokoo with an Introduction and Notes. New York/London: Garland Publishing, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Restorer of Society to Its Natural State in a Series of Letters to a Fellow Citizen. With a Preface, Containing the Objections of a Gentleman Who Perused the Manuscript, and the Answers of the Author Y1 - 1801 A1 - Thomas Spence (1750-1814) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia similar to 1782, 1795, and 1798 Spence. As in all Spence's eutopias, this one stresses that land should be in the hands of the local parish with one simple tax that will support all needed services. Public granary; easy divorce; no war; free trade; improved hospitals.

PB - Ptd. for the Author by A. Searle CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Political Works of Thomas Spence. Ed. H.T. Dickinson (Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng.: Avero (Eighteenth-Century) Publications Ltd., 1982), 69-103. Version of 1803 rpt. in Pig’s Meat: The Selected Writings of Thomas Spence, Radical and Pioneer Land Reformer. Ed. G.I. Gallop (Nottingham, Eng.: Spokesman, 1982), 127-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Constitution of a Perfect Commonwealth. Being the French Constitution of 1793. Amended, and rendered entirely conformable to the Whole Rights of Man Y1 - 1798 A1 - T[homas] Spence (1750-1814) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Another version of Spence’s cooperative commonwealth. See also 1782, 1795, and 1801 Spence.

PB - Author CY - London N1 -

Later ed. as The Constitution of Spensonia A Country in Fairyland Situated Between Utopia and Oceana Brought from Thence by Captain Swallow (i.e. Thomas Spence). London: Author, 1801. This ed. rpt. in Trial of Thomas Spence in 1801 Together With His Description of Spensonia, Constitution of Spensonia, End of Oppression, Recantation of the End of Oppression, Newcastle on Tyne Lecture Delivered in 1775. Also a Brief Life of Spence and a Description of His Political Token Dies by Arthur W. Waters (Leamington Spa, Eng.: Privately Ptd., 1917), 93-109. Versions are also available in The Political Works of Thomas Spence. Ed. H.T. Dickinson (Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Avero (Eighteenth Century) Publications, 1982), 54-69, 104-118; Pig’s Meat: Selected Writings of Thomas Spence, Radical and Pioneer Land Reformer. Ed. G.I. Glossop (Nottingham, England: Spokesman, 1982), 166-185; and in Thomas Spence: The Poor Man’s Revolutionary. Ed. Alastair Bonnett and Keith Alexander (London: Breviary Stuff Publications, 2014), 145-161. An extract was published anonymously as The receipt to make a millennium or happy world. 4th ed. Single sheet. Np, [1805?] This was also published as Something to a Purpose. A receipt to make a millennium or Happy World. Extracts from The Constitution of Spensonia. London: Ptd. for T. Spence, [1803].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Young Philosopher Y1 - 1798 A1 - Charlotte [Turner] Smith (1749-1806) KW - Female author AB -

A small part of the novel depicts an agrarian, Arcadian eutopia in America in contrast to the empty life available in England.

PB - T. Cadell Jr and W. Davies CY - London VL - 4 Vols. N1 -

Rpt. in one vol. ed. Elizabeth Craft. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999, with an “Introduction” by the editor (ix-xxxvi), “Notes to the Novel” (355-90), and “Variants” (391-93).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Institutions of the Republic of Utopia" Y1 - 1796 A1 - Elihu Hubbard Smith (1771-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia focused on health and public education to age thirty, which is coeducational to age twenty-two but with women excluded from university education. Combination of reason and Christianity.

JF - Early American Literature VL - 35.2 N1 -

Ms. in the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Essay on Civil Government, or Society Restored, By Means of I. A Preface of Peace, II. A Reform in Mataphysics [sic], and III. A Political Code and Constitution, Adapted to the True Nature of Man. Translated from the Italian Ms. of A.D.R.S. With Notes, By the Editor Y1 - 1793 A1 - A. D. R S. AB -

Eutopia with details on many aspects of life. Cities, the layout of which is described, will be limited to 20,000 people. There will be two classes based on occupation that will not intermarry. Both boys and girls will be educated, girls to 18 and boys to 22.

PB - Ptd. for J. Ridgway CY - London U1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dreamer No. VI" Y1 - 1789 A1 - Sophronia [pseud.] AB -

Tells of a visit to the “Massachusetts Publick Female Academy” and hearing a speech by the “Preceptress General.” She states that apparent differences in intellect between men and women are not based on inherent differences but on the fact that men are educated, and women are not. In doing so, she refers specifically to women from “a lower sphere” who are kept from learning the skills needed to efficiently run a home, raise children, and support herself and them if necessary. The visitor notes that the library contains only useful books and not “a singly Novel or Romance” (370)

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Sophronia [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Plan for a Free Community upon the Plan for a Free Community upon the Coast of Africa, Under the Protection of Great Britain; But Intirely Independent of all European Laws and Governments. With an Invitation, under certain Conditions, to all Persons desirous of partaking the Benefits thereof. Embellished with a large and elegant View of Sierra Leone, on the Coast of Guinea.of Africa, Under the Protection of Great Britain; But Intirely Independent of all European Laws and Governments. With an Invitation, under certain Conditions, to all Persons desirous of partaking the Benefits there Y1 - 1789 A1 - August [or Augustus] Nordenskjold (1754-92) A1 - Charles Bernard Wadstrom (1746-99) A1 - Colburn Barrell A1 - Johan Gottfried Simpson KW - German author KW - Male author KW - Swedish author KW - US author AB -

Proposal for a Christian community with a constitution and organization of government. For more information the reader is referred to the works of Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772), which they plan to publish.

PB - Ptd. by R. Hindmarsh CY - London N1 -

Later ed. as by Charles Bernard Wadstrom, Plan for a Free Community at Sierra Leona, Upon the Coast of Africa, Under the Protection of Great Britain; with An Invitation to all Persons desirous of partaking the Benefits thereof. Embellished with a large and elegant View of Sierra Leona, on the Coast of Guinea. London: Ptd. for T. and J. Egerton, 1792. Same signers. Some errata.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The United States Elevated to Glory and Honor. A Sermon Preached Before His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esq. L.L.D. Governor and Commander in Chief, and the Honorable The General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, Convened at Hartford, At the Anniversary Election, May 8th, 1783 Y1 - 1783 A1 - Ezra Stiles D.D. (1727-95) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The United States presented as an achieved eutopia, which will be a model to and leader of the rest of the world due to its governmental system and true religion. The country will have a population of forty to fifty million before the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies. See also his A Discourse on the Christian Union: The Substance of Which Was Delivered Before the Reverend Convention of the Congregational Clergy in the Colony of Rhode Island; Assembled at Bristol. April 23, 1760. Boston, N.E.: Printed and sold by Edes and Gill, 1761. Rpt. Brookfield, MA: np, 1799. 164 pp. that projects New England into the next century. 

PB - Thomas & Samuel Green CY - New Haven, CT N1 -

Rpt. ed. Reiner Smolinski. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&context=etas. A different version was published in The Kingdom, the Power, & the Glory: The Millennial Impulse in Early American Literature. Ed. Reiner Smolinski (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt, 1998), 441–492. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Prophecy of the future Glory of America" Y1 - 1778 A1 - [David] [Rittenhouse] (1732-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem describing the future of the United States in vague, but eutopian terms.

JF - The Lancaster Almanack for the Year of Our Lord, 1779: Being the Third after Leap-Year. The Fourth Year of American Independency. Containing The Motions of the Sun and the Moon; the true places and aspects of the planets; the Rising and Settings of the Sun; the Luinations, Conjunctions, Eclipses, Rising, Setting and Southing of the Planets; Length of Days; Judgment of the Weather; Festivals and other Remarkable Days; High Water at Philadelphia; Tables of Interest; Tables of the Value and Weight of Coins; A Table, shewing the Value of any number of Dollars from 1, to 10,000; Quakers Yearly Meetings; Fairs, Courts, Roads, &c. ALSO, The Happy Life, On New-Year’s Day; A Prophecy of the future Glory of America; Anecdote of Col. Ethan Allen, in reply to Genl. Howe; Receipts in Physic; New Liberty Songs, &c. &c. &c. Fitted to the Latitude of Forty Degrees, and a Meridian of near Five Hours West of London; but may without sensible Error, serve all the Northern Colonies PB - Ptd. by Francis Bailey CY - Lancaster, PA U3 -

Anthony Sharp, Philom [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Discourse on the Christian Union: The Substance of Which Was Delivered Before the Reverend Convention of the Congregational Clergy in the Colony of Rhode Island; Assembled at Bristol. April 23, 1760 Y1 - 1761 A1 - Ezra Stiles A.M. (1727-95) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Projects New England into the next century. Most of the book is concerned with what Christians agreed upon and where they disagree. From page 145 (1799 ed.) a lot of space is devoted to the increase in population of each of the four sects he finds worthy of attention, Episcopalians, Friends (Quakers), Baptists, and Congregationalists, with the last showing the greatest increase in population and in the number of churches. His concern is that without unity among Christians, or at least Protestants, the coming generations will become indifferent or tempted by other churches. Therefore, he gives suggestions for those who in the future will found new communities. He stresses the need for such new communities to establish churches and bring in ministers. At page 154 (1799 ed.) he projects one hundred years into the future, when he foresees the plain churches of his day replaced “with temples whose colonades [as spelled] are deckt with guilt busts of angels winged. . . .” Seven million Congregationalists at that time. 

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Rpt. Brookfield, MA: np, 1799. 164 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Discovery of Fonseca In a Voyage to Surranam. The Island so long sought for in the Western Ocean. Inhabited by Women with the Account of their Habits, Customs and Religion. And the Exact Longitude and Latitude of the Place Taken from the Mouth of a Person cast away on the Place in an Hurricane with the Account of their being Cast away Y1 - 1682 A1 - J[ohn] S[hirley] (fl. 1680-1702) KW - Male author AB -

An island of women of Welsh origin. No men allowed on the island except for specified visits. Male children must leave at an early age. Male visitors must leave at the end of the month.

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Rpt. in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 131-36.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The History of the Sevarites or Sevarambi; a Nation inhabiting part of the third Continent, Commonly called, Terra Australis Incognitae. With an Account of their admirable Government, Religion, Customs, and Language. Written By one Captain Siden [pseud.]. A worthy Person, Who, together with many others, was Cast upon those Coasts, and lived many Years in that Country Y1 - 1675 A1 - [Denis] [Vairasse d'Allais] (c. 1637-c. 1683) KW - French author KW - Male author AB -

A major work of French utopianism first published in English. Detailed eutopia stressing equality and moderation. A new language is presented. Set in what became Australia.

PB - Ptd. for Henry Brome CY - London N1 -

The second part, published in 1679, has the identical title except that A further replaces an before Account and The Second Part more wonderful and delightful than the First is added after Country. Plagiarized in Capt. Lemuel Gulliver [pseud.]. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. Volume 3. 2 parts. London: np, 1727 [This is not by Jonathan Swift], which is rpt. in Gulliveriana III. Comp. Jeanne K. Welcher and George E. Bush, Jr. (Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1972), 1-295. Published in French as Histoire des Sévarambes, peuples qui habitant une Partie du troisiéme Continent, communément appellé La Terre Australe. Contenant une Relation du Gouvernement, des Moeurs, de la Religion, & du Langage de cette Nation, inconnuë jusques à present aux Peuples de l’Europe. 2 Parts. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Estienne Roger, 1702. There was also a 1716 edition with the same title and publisher. A modern French edition is Histoire des Sévarambes. Ed. Michel Rolland. Amiens, France: Encrae, 1994. A modern English edition is Denis Veiras, The History of the Sevarambians: A Utopian Novel. Ed. John Christian Laursen and Cyrus Masroori. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Felicitas Ultimi Saeculi: Epistola In Qua, Inter Alia, Calamitosus aevi praesentis status seriò deploratur, certa felicioris posthac spes ostenditur, & ad promovendum publicum Ecclesiae & Rei literariae bonum omnes excitantur: In gratiam Amici cujusdam paulo ante obitum Y1 - 1640 A1 - John Stoughton (1593-1639) ED - Samuel Hartlib (c. 1600-1662) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed Protestant eutopia in which the Papacy and its supporters are overthrown, and a premillennial golden age is established. Refers to Francis Bacon (1561-1626), John Dury (1596-1680), and John Amos Comenius (Jan Amos Komenský) (1592-1670) as the intellectual leaders of the change. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A View of the State of Ireland, Written Dialogue-wise, betweene Eudoxus and Irenæus. By Edmund Spenser, Esq. In the Yeare 1596 Y1 - 1633 A1 - Edmund Spenser (1552?-99) ED - [James] [Ware] KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Apparently intended as a serious analysis of Ireland and its people, it proposes the complete suppression of the Irish people, the expropriation of all the land, exchange of the Irish among counties where they will work for English landlords, slaughter of cattle, and taxing the Irish to pay for the military that will suppress them. Argues that the Irish are descended from the barbarian Scythians and that resisting English law indicates that the Irish are “the lowest form of savages” (Hadfield and Maley ed., xx). Treated as a utopia in Sarah Hogan, Other Englands: Utopia, Capital, and Empire in an Age of Transition. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. 

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Rpt. as "A View of the Present State of Ireland." In The Works of Edmund Spenser. A Variorum Edition. Ed. Charles Grosvenor Osgood, Frederick Morgan Padelford, and Ray Heffner. Vol. X Spenser’s Prose Works. Ed. Rudolf Gottfried (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1949), 39-231 with “Appendix III A View of the Present State of Ireland (497-532); and as A View of the Present State of Ireland. Ed. W. L. Renwick. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1970. Critical ed. as A View of the State of Ireland. From the first printed edition (1633). Ed. Andrew Hadfield and Willy Maley. Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. “Ware’s Annotations” (162-69), “Passages Omitted from Ware’s Text” (170-76), “Glossary” (190-92). 

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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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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tempest Y1 - 1611 A1 - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Includes a very brief description of the Golden Age.

PB - Ptd. Isaac Iaggard, and Ed. Blount CY - London N1 -

A standard ed. is The Tempest. Ed. Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan in The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works. Ed. Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, and David Scott Kastan (London: Methuen Drama, 2011), 1071-95 with a brief editor’s note on 1071. A recent critical ed. is The Tempest. Fully Annotated, with an Introduction, by Burton Raffel (xv-xxix). The Annotated Shakespeare. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006, with “An Essay by Harold Bloom” (137-48). A critical edition that emphasizes performance history is The Tempest. Ed. David Lindley. Updated ed. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia Y1 - 1590 A1 - Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Arcadian, sentimental eutopia with the emphasis on romance and knightly virtue.

PB - William Ponsonbie CY - London N1 -

While this is the standard, often reprinted text, it is deeply flawed. See The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (The Old Arcadia). Ed. Jean Robertson. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1973, with a “General Introduction” (xv-xli) and a “Textual Introduction” (xlii-lxxii); Ed. Katherine Duncan-Jones. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1985, with an editor’s “Introduction” (vii-xxiv); Reissued with a new bibliography, 1994; and The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (The New Arcadia). Ed. Victor Skretowicz. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1987, with “Textual Introduction” (liii-lxxxii) and “Commentary” (507-82). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Anatomie of Abuses: Contayning a Discoverie, or Briefe Summarie of such Notable Vices and Imperfections, as now raigne in many Christian Countreyes of the Worlde: but (especiallie) in a verie famous ILANDE called AILGNA: Together, with most fearefull Examples of Gods Iudgements, executed vpon the wicked for the same, aswell in AILGNA of late, as in other places, elsewhere. Verie Godly, to be read of all true Christians euerie where: but most needefull to be regarded in ENGLANDE Y1 - 1583 A1 - Phillip Stubbes (c. 1555 – c. 1610) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on England using the imaginary country approach. Stubbes begins his attack by focusing on pride and a lengthy critique of the clothes worn by both men and women. He then moves on to sexual relations, eating and drinking, usury, Sabbath-breaking, and other topics. Generally read as anti-theatre. See also 1583 Stubbes. The Second part.

PB - Richard Iones CY - London N1 -

This ed. was published May 1 and was rpt. ed. John Payne Collier. London, 1870, with an “Introduction” by the editor (i-ii); and New York: Garland, 1973, with a “Preface(5-7)” by Andrew Freeman. A variant issue dated May 29. A 2nd ed. was published August 16 and a 3rd ed. on October 12, 1584, with a variant issue of the 3rd in 1585, all with minor variations in the title. The 1585 ed. was rpt. as The anatomie of abuses by Philip Stubbes; reprinted from the third edition of 1585 under the superintendence of William B.D.D. Turnbull. London: W. Pickering, 1836. with “Prefatory Remarks” by Turnbull (v-xi). The 4th and final ed. eliminates the pretense of the book being about an imaginary country, and is entitled The Anatomie of Abuses. Containing A Description of such notable Vices, as raigne in many Countries of the world, but especiallie in the Realme of England: Together with most fearefull examples of Gods heauie Iudgements inflicted vpon the wicked for the same as well in England of late, as in other places else where. Verie godly to be read by all true Christians euery where, but most chiefly, to bee regarded in England. Made dialogue-wise by Phillip Stubs, Gent. Now, the fourth time, newly corrected and enlarged by the same Author. London: Imprinted by Richard Iones, 1595. Rpt. as Phillip Stubbes’s Anatomy of the Abuses in England in Shakespere’s Youth, A.D. 1583. Part I. (Collated with Other Editions in 1583, 1585, and 1595.) With Extracts from Stubbes’s Life of His Wife, 1591, and his Perfect Pathway to Felicitie, 1592 (1610), and B.P. Babington on the Ten Commandments, 1588; also the Fourth Book of Thomas Kirchmaier’s (or Naogeorgus’s) Regnum Papismi, or Popish Kingdome, (Englisht by Barnabe Googe, 1570,) on Popular and Popish Superstitions in 1553. Ed. Frederick J. Furnivall. London: Publisht for The New Shakespeare Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1877-9 (LLL); and Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum/New York: Da Capo Press, 1972. A critical ed. of the 4th ed. was published ed. Margaret Jane Kidnie. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in conjunction with Renaissance English Text Society, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Second part of the Anatomie of Abuses, conteining The Display of Corruptions, with a perfect description of such imperfections, blemishes and abuses, as now reigning in euerie degree, require reformation for feare of Gods vengeance to be powred vpon the people and countrie, without speedie repentance and conuersion vnto God: made dialogwise by Phillip Stubbs. Y1 - 1583 A1 - Phillip Stubbes (c. 1555 – c. 1610) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of 1583 Stubbes published six months after the first part and divided into abuses of temporality and spirituality. The former includes a continuation of the critique of fashion, but stresses is more concerned with law, education, trade, poor relief, farming, and so forth. The latter attacks the church. The running head is "The display of Corruptions," which gives a generally accurate idea of the contents.

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Rpt. of an abbreviated ed. as Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the Abuses in England in Shakespere's Youth, A.D. 1583. Part II. The Display of Corruptions Requiring Reformation. Ed. Frederick J. Furnivall. London: Publisht for The New Shakespeare Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1882 (LLL); and as The Second Part of the Anatomie of Abuses. New York: Garland, 1973, with a "Preface" by Arthur Freeman (5-6).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A letter sent by I.B. Gentleman vnto his very frende Maystet [sic] R.C. Esquire: vvherin is conteined a large discourse of the peopling & inhabiting the cuntrie called the Ardes, and other adiacent in the north of Ireland, and taken in hand by Sir Thomas Smith one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Counsel, and Thomas Smith Esquire, his sonne Y1 - 1572 A1 - Thomas Smith (1513-77) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The work uses the word “eutopia” in discussing a plan for the colonization of the Ards Peninsula of Ireland and designed to recruit appropriate colonizers. Published at the end of the book is The offer and order giuen for the by Sir Thomas Smythe Knighte and Thomas Smythe his sonne, unto suche as be willing to accompanie the sayd Thomas Smythe the sonne, in his voyage for the inhabiting some partes of the north of Irelande. London; Ptd. by Henry Binneman for Anthonhson, nd. 8 pp. Treated as a utopia in Sarah Hogan, Other Englands: Utopia, Capital, and Empire in an Age of Transition. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018.

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